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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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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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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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False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
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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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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
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The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
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It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.
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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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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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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion but happiness rests upon truth.
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The contact of two epidermises.
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The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.
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There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
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There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
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What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.
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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
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