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A woman is like your shadow follow her, she flies fly from her, she follows.

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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
Playwright
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Politician
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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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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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Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
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There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.
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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
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Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.
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All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
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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.
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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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It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.
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Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
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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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If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
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Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
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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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Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
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