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Nicolas Chamfort was a French wit and writer. He was born on April 6th, 1741 and died on April 13th, 1794.

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The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

Fame: the advantage of being known to those who do not know us.

Change in fashion is the tax which the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

There are more fools than wise men and even in the wise man himself there is more folly than wisdom.

'Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

The loves of some people are but the result of good suppers.

A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.

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