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

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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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Politician
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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She commands who is blest with indifference.
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It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.
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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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Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
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What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.
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He who leaves the game wins it.
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The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
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