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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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There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.
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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
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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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Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours it is a palliation death is the remedy.
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Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
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The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
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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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