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Running a house should be left to innkeepers.

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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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Clarmont-Ferrand
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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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Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
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His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
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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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If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
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We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.
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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
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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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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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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.
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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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Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.
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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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