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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
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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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She commands who is blest with indifference.
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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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Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.
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It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
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Women of the world crave excitement.
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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
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Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
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And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)
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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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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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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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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
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How many fools does it take to make up a public?
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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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It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.
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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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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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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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