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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
Playwright
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Clarmont-Ferrand
Love
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History
Reason
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Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.
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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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Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
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It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
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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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One must not hope to be more than one can be.
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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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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
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Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
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