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Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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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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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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A man without nobility cannot have kindliness he can only have good nature.
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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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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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In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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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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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
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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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Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.
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Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
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Men of reason have enduredmen of passion have lived.
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If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
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Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
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