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A woman is like your shadow follow her, she flies fly from her, she follows.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
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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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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
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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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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.
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A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
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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.
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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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The contact of two epidermises.
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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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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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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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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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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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