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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
Contact
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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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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
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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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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion but happiness rests upon truth.
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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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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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She commands who is blest with indifference.
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All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
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Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
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Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
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Chance is a nickname for Providence.
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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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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
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We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
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Women of the world crave excitement.
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He who leaves the game wins it.
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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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Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.
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