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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
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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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One must not hope to be more than one can be.
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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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In love, everything is true, everything is false it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
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There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
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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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Be my brother or I will kill you.
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His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
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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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Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
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He who leaves the game wins it.
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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 is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.
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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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In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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