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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
Playwright
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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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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All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
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Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
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The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
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Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
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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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A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
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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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He who leaves the game wins it.
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Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
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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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Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours it is a palliation death is the remedy.
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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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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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Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.
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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.
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