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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
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All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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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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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.
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Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
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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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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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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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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.
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In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
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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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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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