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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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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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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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We gild our medicines with sweets why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
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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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Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
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Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.
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Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
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False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
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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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A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
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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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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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There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
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Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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