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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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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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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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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
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Women of the world crave excitement.
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.
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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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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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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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It is children only who enjoy the present their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
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False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
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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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The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.
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Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un pallatif. La mort est le remede.
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Chance is a nickname for Providence.
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