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Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

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
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
Capacity
Knowledge
Human
Humans
Boundless
Limited

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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
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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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Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
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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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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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In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
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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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