3 December 2020 Nicolas Chamfort Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Chamfort If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Chamfort Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative. The remedy is death.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Chamfort The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Chamfort Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Chamfort Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Chamfort It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Chamfort Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Chamfort Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Chamfort Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Chamfort Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
