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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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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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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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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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It is children only who enjoy the present their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
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Women of the world crave excitement.
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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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Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.
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Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
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Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.
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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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