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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
Playwright
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Clarmont-Ferrand
Friendship
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There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
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Chance is a nickname for Providence.
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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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False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
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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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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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One must not hope to be more than one can be.
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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 of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
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All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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A woman is like your shadow follow her, she flies fly from her, she follows.
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Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.
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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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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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