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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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She commands who is blest with indifference.
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A woman is like your shadow follow her, she flies fly from her, she follows.
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Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
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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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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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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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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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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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The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.
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