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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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We gild our medicines with sweets why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
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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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The contact of two epidermises.
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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
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She commands who is blest with indifference.
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If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
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We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.
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Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
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Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
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Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
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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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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
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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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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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If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
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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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