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Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
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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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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False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
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Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
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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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One must not hope to be more than one can be.
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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)
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All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
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The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
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