Quote

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Nicolas Chamfort

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
Novels
Pleasant
Marriage
Novel
History
Reason
Love
Amusing

More quotes by Nicolas Chamfort

Image
The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
A man without nobility cannot have kindliness he can only have good nature.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
Nicolas Chamfort