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If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.

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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
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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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We gild our medicines with sweets why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
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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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And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)
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It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
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Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.
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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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The contact of two epidermises.
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There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.
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One must not hope to be more than one can be.
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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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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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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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It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.
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Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
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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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There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
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