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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
Nicolas Chamfort
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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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Clarmont-Ferrand
Literature
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
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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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We must start human society from scratch as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
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A man without nobility cannot have kindliness he can only have good nature.
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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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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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
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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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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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Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.
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The contact of two epidermises.
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