What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“We ought to be able to combine opposites: the love of goodness with indifference to other people's opinions, a liking for work… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image