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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
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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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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In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion but happiness rests upon truth.
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Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
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How many fools does it take to make up a public?
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It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
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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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Chance is a nickname for Providence.
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
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Running a house should be left to innkeepers.
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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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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.
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False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
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It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.
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Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
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A man without nobility cannot have kindliness he can only have good nature.
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