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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 enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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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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To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
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He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.
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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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If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
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Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
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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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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
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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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Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours it is a palliation death is the remedy.
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.
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A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
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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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In great matters, men behave as they are expected to in little ones, as they would naturally
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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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