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Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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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 person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.
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The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed.
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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
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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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Loneliness
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People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
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Reason
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Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
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Society
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The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
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Philosophy
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Once we have resolved only to see those who will treat us morally and virtuously, reasonably and truthfully, without treating conventions, vanities and ceremonials as anything other than props of polite society, we will have to live more or less on our own.
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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters; first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything.
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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
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Authors
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
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Illusion
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No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
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There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
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Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
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Mind
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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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Passion
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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Justice
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Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
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Men
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Success makes success, like money makes money.
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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Goodness
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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
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Law
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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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Shame
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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. About Paris
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City
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What I learned I no longer know; the little I still know, I guessed.
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Knowledge
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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Respect
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How many fools does it take to make up a public?
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