Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
– Nicolas Chamfort
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.
– Nicolas Chamfort
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
– Nicolas Chamfort
There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
– Nicolas Chamfort
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
– Nicolas Chamfort
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
– 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.
– 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.
– 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.