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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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A man without nobility cannot have kindliness he can only have good nature.
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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
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The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
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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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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
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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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[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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In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
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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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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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Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.
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How many fools does it take to make up a public?
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