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Running a house should be left to innkeepers.

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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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It is children only who enjoy the present their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
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Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours it is a palliation death is the remedy.
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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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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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Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
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Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
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Be my brother or I will kill you.
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His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
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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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Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
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To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
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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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A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
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The contact of two epidermises.
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In great matters, men behave as they are expected to in little ones, as they would naturally
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Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
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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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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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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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