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If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
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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Change, change,--we all covet change.
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Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
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Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
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A man without nobility cannot have kindliness he can only have good nature.
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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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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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All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
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There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
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Chance is a nickname for Providence.
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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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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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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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Men of reason have enduredmen of passion have lived.
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