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A man without nobility cannot have kindliness he can only have good nature.
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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Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
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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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Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
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She commands who is blest with indifference.
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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
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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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Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, No. To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.
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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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We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
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Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
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