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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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Chance is a nickname for Providence.
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Running a house should be left to innkeepers.
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The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
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If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
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All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
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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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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
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Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.
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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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