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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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He who leaves the game wins it.
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion but happiness rests upon truth.
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Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.
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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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All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
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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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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
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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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In great matters, men behave as they are expected to in little ones, as they would naturally
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What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.
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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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A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
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It is children only who enjoy the present their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
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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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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
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If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
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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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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
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