What did Nicolas Chamfort mean by: Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it. Nicolas Chamfort Playwright · France Copy
All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Nicolas Chamfort, Exaggeration, Intensity, Passion, 0 Nicolas Chamfort Playwright · France
A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Nicolas Chamfort, Attachment, Movement, Relationships, 0 Nicolas Chamfort Playwright · France
+ A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship. Author, September 1, 2023January 2, 2025, Nicolas Chamfort, Conflict, Relationships, Romance, 0 Nicolas Chamfort Playwright · France
To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality. Read explanation Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Nicolas Chamfort, Enjoyment, Harm, Morality, 0 Nicolas Chamfort Playwright · France
+ Satire is the disease of art. Author, September 23, 2023January 2, 2025, Nicolas Chamfort, Creativity, Criticism, Humor, 0 Nicolas Chamfort Playwright · France
+ Knowledge is boundless,–human capacity, limited. Author, June 9, 2023January 2, 2025, Nicolas Chamfort, Capacity, Knowledge, Limits, 0 Nicolas Chamfort Playwright · France
+ Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors. Author, July 23, 2023January 2, 2025, Nicolas Chamfort, Suffering, Tragedy, Violence, 0 Nicolas Chamfort Playwright · France
His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Nicolas Chamfort, Passion, Survival, Wisdom, 0 Nicolas Chamfort Playwright · France
Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn’t bore. Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I’m not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France