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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.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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He who leaves the game wins it.
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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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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion but happiness rests upon truth.
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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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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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A woman is like your shadow follow her, she flies fly from her, she follows.
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We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
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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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To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
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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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One must not hope to be more than one can be.
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Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.
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Running a house should be left to innkeepers.
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Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. It is, he says, because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.
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A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
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False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
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