The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. – Nicolas Chamfort
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. – Nicolas Chamfort
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France. – Nicolas Chamfort
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws. – Nicolas Chamfort