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How many fools does it take to make up a public?
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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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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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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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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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
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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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Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
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Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.
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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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He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.
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It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion but happiness rests upon truth.
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A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
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Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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A woman is like your shadow follow her, she flies fly from her, she follows.
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Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
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All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
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