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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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Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
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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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In love, everything is true, everything is false it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
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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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Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours it is a palliation death is the remedy.
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Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
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