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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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Chance is a nickname for Providence.
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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
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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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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
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Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
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If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
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A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
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The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.
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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
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Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
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Men of reason have enduredmen of passion have lived.
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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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