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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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Clarmont-Ferrand
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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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Men of reason have enduredmen of passion have lived.
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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
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Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
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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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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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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
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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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Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. It is, he says, because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.
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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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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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