Quotes from Chamfort

Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be an idiocy, because it has been able to appeal to a majority.

El día peor empleado es aquél en que no se ha reído

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

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

Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.

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