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Be my brother or I will kill you.

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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
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To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
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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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[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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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.
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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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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
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She commands who is blest with indifference.
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
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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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Chance is a nickname for Providence.
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion but happiness rests upon truth.
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Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
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