There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love. Nicolas Chamfort More Quotes by Nicolas Chamfort More Quotes From Nicolas Chamfort At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing. Nicolas Chamfort sight laughing men In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity. Nicolas Chamfort absurdity subjects He who leaves the game wins it. Nicolas Chamfort games winning Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything. Nicolas Chamfort oysters eating firsts All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. Nicolas Chamfort exaggeration exaggeration-is passion The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society Nicolas Chamfort literature secret art There is a melancholy that stems from greatness Nicolas Chamfort stem melancholy greatness Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me. Nicolas Chamfort marriage men son The contact of two epidermises. Nicolas Chamfort contact love two Where violence reigns, reason is weak. Nicolas Chamfort reign violence reason A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows. Nicolas Chamfort women shadow like-you In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing. Nicolas Chamfort strive attention country The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine. Nicolas Chamfort cold doctors gold Chance is a nickname for Providence. Nicolas Chamfort nicknames providence chance Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence. Nicolas Chamfort absolutes stupidity Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before. Nicolas Chamfort reading funny book Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it. Nicolas Chamfort epidemics disease love-is People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. Nicolas Chamfort kindness heart people Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate. Nicolas Chamfort humor law funny His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last. Nicolas Chamfort passion lasts men
