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Chance is a nickname for Providence.

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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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Providence
Chance

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False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
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What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.
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If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
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In love, everything is true, everything is false it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
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Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
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Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
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Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
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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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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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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
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To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
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In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.
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