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Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
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All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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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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A man without nobility cannot have kindliness he can only have good nature.
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We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
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It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
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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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His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
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The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
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