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We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.
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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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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
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The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
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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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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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Chance is a nickname for Providence.
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We must start human society from scratch as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
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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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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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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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There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
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Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
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False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
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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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All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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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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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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