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Nicolas Chamfort has 108 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
• Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
• Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
• The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
• Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
• The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
• When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles…
• It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily…
• Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
• Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
• Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
• If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

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