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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
Journalist
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
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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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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
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The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
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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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He who leaves the game wins it.
Nicolas Chamfort
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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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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A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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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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Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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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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She commands who is blest with indifference.
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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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In great matters, men behave as they are expected to in little ones, as they would naturally
Nicolas Chamfort
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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