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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.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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Anecdotes
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Despotism

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Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
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A man without nobility cannot have kindliness he can only have good nature.
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Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.
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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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Women of the world crave excitement.
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Running a house should be left to innkeepers.
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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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Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
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Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
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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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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
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Men of reason have enduredmen of passion have lived.
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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
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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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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
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Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
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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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To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
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