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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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Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
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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 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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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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We gild our medicines with sweets why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
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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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A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
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A woman is like your shadow follow her, she flies fly from her, she follows.
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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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All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
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A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
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We must start human society from scratch as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
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The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
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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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