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His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
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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Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.
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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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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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Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
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In great matters, men behave as they are expected to in little ones, as they would naturally
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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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The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
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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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And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)
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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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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
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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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