Nicolas Chamfort - Love Quotes

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There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

Nicolas Chamfort
My whole life is woven of threads which are in blatant contrast to my principles. … I love self-chosen poverty, and live among rich people; I avoid all honors, and yet some have come to me. … I believe that illusions are necessary to man, yet live without illusion; I believe that the passions are more profitable than reason, and yet no longer know what passion is.

Nicolas Chamfort
The loves of some people are but the result of good suppers.

Nicolas Chamfort
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Nicolas Chamfort
In love, everything is true, everything is false; and it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

Nicolas Chamfort
Love, in the form in which it exists in society, is nothing but the exchange of two fantasies and the superficial contact of two bodies.

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Love pleases more than marriage, for the reason that romance is more interesting than history.

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Love is a malicious blind boy, who seeks to blind the eyes of his guide, that both may go astray together.

Nicolas Chamfort
Stubbornness equals character roughly as lust equals love.

Nicolas Chamfort
We have three kinds of friends: those who love us, those who are indifferent to us, and those who hate us.

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Love as it exists in society is merely the mingling of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.

Nicolas Chamfort
Our gratitude to most benefactors is the same as our feeling for dentists who have pulled our teeth. We acknowledge the good they have done and the evil from which they have delivered us, but we remember the pain they occasioned and do not love them very much.

Nicolas Chamfort
Nowadays, those who love nature are accused of being romantic.

Nicolas Chamfort
Love, as it exists in society, is nothing but the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.

Nicolas Chamfort