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A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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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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He who leaves the game wins it.
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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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Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
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All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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