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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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Clarmont-Ferrand
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It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
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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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Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
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Be my brother or I will kill you.
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How many fools does it take to make up a public?
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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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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
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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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Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
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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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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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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
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