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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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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Men of reason have enduredmen of passion have lived.
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All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
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Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.
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It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
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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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Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
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The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
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The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
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Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
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There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
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The contact of two epidermises.
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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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He who leaves the game wins it.
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