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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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Clarmont-Ferrand
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
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False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
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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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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
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Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.
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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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Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
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The contact of two epidermises.
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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 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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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
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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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Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un pallatif. La mort est le remede.
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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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The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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