(74 quotes found)
“Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.”
Chamfort
“Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.”
“In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity”
“A woman is like your shadow - follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows”
“The world either breaks or hardens the heart”
“Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history”
“Chance is a nickname of Providence”
“Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.”
“Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last”
“Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.”
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort