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The contact of two epidermises.

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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
Love
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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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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Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
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A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.
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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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There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.
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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
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Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
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A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
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