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Change, change,--we all covet change.

Nicolas Chamfort

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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
Covet
Novelty
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There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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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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Running a house should be left to innkeepers.
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
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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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In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
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One must not hope to be more than one can be.
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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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Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.
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If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
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It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.
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Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
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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 the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
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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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The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
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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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