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He who leaves the game wins it.

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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
Playwright
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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
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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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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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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 new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.
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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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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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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
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It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
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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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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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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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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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