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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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The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.
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If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
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Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.
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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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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
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A man without nobility cannot have kindliness he can only have good nature.
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Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.
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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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Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
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Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.
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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. It is, he says, because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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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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Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
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