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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.
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There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
Nicolas Chamfort
Be my brother or I will kill you.
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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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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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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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It is children only who enjoy the present their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
Nicolas Chamfort
We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
Nicolas Chamfort
It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.
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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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We must start human society from scratch as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
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Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.
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Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
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Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
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In great matters, men behave as they are expected to in little ones, as they would naturally
Nicolas Chamfort
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
Nicolas Chamfort
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.
Nicolas Chamfort
Women of the world crave excitement.
Nicolas Chamfort
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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