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Change, change,--we all covet change.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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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 threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
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There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
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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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If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
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The contact of two epidermises.
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Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
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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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There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
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Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.
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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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The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
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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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Be my brother or I will kill you.
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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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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We gild our medicines with sweets why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
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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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Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, No. To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.
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