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One must not hope to be more than one can be.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
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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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In love, everything is true, everything is false it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
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Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.
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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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Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.
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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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A man without nobility cannot have kindliness he can only have good nature.
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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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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
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Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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Women of the world crave excitement.
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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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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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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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