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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
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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
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In love, everything is true, everything is false it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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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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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
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Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.
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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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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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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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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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The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
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There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
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[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.
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