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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.
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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There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
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What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.
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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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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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Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
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If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
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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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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
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