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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
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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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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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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
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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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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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