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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
Journalist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
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If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
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We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
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Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.
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All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
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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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Running a house should be left to innkeepers.
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
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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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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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We gild our medicines with sweets why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
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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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Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
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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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