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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion but happiness rests upon truth.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.
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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
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Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
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Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, No. To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.
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It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.
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We gild our medicines with sweets why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
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Chance is a nickname for Providence.
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Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.
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How many fools does it take to make up a public?
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In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
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It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.
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Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
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Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
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Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.
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Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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