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Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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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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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
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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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Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.
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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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She commands who is blest with indifference.
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If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
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Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.
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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
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In great matters, men behave as they are expected to in little ones, as they would naturally
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Chance is a nickname for Providence.
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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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Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
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There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.
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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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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
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A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
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