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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
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It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.
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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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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
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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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We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
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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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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
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A woman is like your shadow follow her, she flies fly from her, she follows.
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The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
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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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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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We gild our medicines with sweets why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
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There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
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It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
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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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Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
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If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
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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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