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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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The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
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We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
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A woman is like your shadow follow her, she flies fly from her, she follows.
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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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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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One must not hope to be more than one can be.
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If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
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His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
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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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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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She commands who is blest with indifference.
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Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un pallatif. La mort est le remede.
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A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.
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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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Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
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There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
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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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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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