Nicolas Chamfort Is Quotations

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

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.

Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins....