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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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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
Success
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Life
People
Friendship
Loved
Willing

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Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
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Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. It is, he says, because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
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