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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
Marriage
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Love
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A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.
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A woman is like your shadow follow her, she flies fly from her, she follows.
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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
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Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
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If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
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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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How many fools does it take to make up a public?
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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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He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.
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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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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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His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
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We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
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False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
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