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In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
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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Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.
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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
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Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion but happiness rests upon truth.
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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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His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
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Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.
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Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
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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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A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.
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Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
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All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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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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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
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