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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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What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.
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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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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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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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The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.
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Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.
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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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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
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Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.
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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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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
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Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un pallatif. La mort est le remede.
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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
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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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