Nicolas Chamfort

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the…

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest…

Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and…

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

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

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be…

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the…

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test…

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in…

One must not hope to be more than one can be…

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society…

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems…

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative…

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries…