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