Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performan...

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion, but happiness rests upon truth.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such...

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

When you want to be well-liked in the world, you have to let a lot of people teach you things that y...

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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

All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be...