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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.

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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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Politician
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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We must start human society from scratch as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
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Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.
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Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
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There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
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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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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
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She commands who is blest with indifference.
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion but happiness rests upon truth.
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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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Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
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It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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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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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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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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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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It is children only who enjoy the present their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
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To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
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