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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
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
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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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It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.
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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
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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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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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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
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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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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
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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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In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.
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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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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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Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours it is a palliation death is the remedy.
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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, No. To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.
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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
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In great matters, men behave as they are expected to in little ones, as they would naturally
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