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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.
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
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We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.
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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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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
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