More From Nicolas Chamfort
- "Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history."
- "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."
- "Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative. The remedy is death."
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