Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorLove is more pleasing than marriage, because novels are more pleasing than history.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorWomen give to friendship only what they cut from love.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorLove is like contagious diseases, the more they are feared, the more easily they are acquired.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorIn the world, there are three kinds of friends: those who love you, those who take care of you, and those who hate you.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorPhysical scourges and the calamities of human nature made society necessary. Society was added to the disasters of nature. The inconveniences of society made Government necessary, and Government was added to the disasters of society. This is the history of human nature.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorIt is easier to legalize certain things than to legitimize them.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorAlmost all men are slaves, for the reason that the Spartans gave for the servitude of the Persians, for not knowing how to pronounce the syllable 'no'.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorWhen one wants to be pleasant in society, it is necessary to resolve to allow many things that we know to be taught to us by people who are unaware.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorThree quarters of madness are nothing but follies.
Nicolas Chamfort
View AuthorPublic opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns among the stupid.
Violeta Chamorro
View AuthorReconciliation is more beautiful than victory.
Raymond Chandler
View AuthorThe first kiss is magical, the second intimate, the third routine.