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There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.
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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
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Men of reason have enduredmen of passion have lived.
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A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
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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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If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
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To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
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Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.
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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
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In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.
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It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
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Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
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Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
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In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
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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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