French - Writer | April 6, 1741 - April 13, 1794
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
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There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
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The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
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There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
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People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
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One must not hope to be more than one can be.
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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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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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