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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.

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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
Marriage
Love
Flame
Follows
Flames
Smoke

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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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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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Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
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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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A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
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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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