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Nicolas de Chamfort

"Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth."

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"Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth."

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"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."

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"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth."

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"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."

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"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"

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"Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us."

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"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

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"Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom."

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"More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?"

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"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

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"To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death."

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"There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love."
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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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"Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before."
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"Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures."
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"Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day."
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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 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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"Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?"
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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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"Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us."
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