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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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Clarmont-Ferrand
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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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The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
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All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
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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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A woman is like your shadow follow her, she flies fly from her, she follows.
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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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Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours it is a palliation death is the remedy.
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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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The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.
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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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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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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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Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
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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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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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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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The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
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Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
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