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He who leaves the game wins it.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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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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Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
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Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.
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It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.
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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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Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
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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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There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
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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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A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
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In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
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Women of the world crave excitement.
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Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
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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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