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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.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.
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The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
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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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Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
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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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We gild our medicines with sweets why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
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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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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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Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours it is a palliation death is the remedy.
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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
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Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
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There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
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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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[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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Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
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The contact of two epidermises.
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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
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Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
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