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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
Nicolas de Chamfort
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It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.
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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
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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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There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
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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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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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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
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