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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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And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)
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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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Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion but happiness rests upon truth.
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There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.
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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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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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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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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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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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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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