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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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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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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
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Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
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Women of the world crave excitement.
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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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A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
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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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Men of reason have enduredmen of passion have lived.
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A man without nobility cannot have kindliness he can only have good nature.
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
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In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.
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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
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