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[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.
Nicolas Chamfort
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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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Clarmont-Ferrand
Prudence
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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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Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
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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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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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Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.
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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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How many fools does it take to make up a public?
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
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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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Chance is a nickname for Providence.
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Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.
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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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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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