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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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Running a house should be left to innkeepers.
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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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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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The contact of two epidermises.
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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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The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.
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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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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
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Men of reason have enduredmen of passion have lived.
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Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.
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Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
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Chance is a nickname for Providence.
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