Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
- Nicolas de Chamfort Quote

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
- Nicolas de Chamfort Quote

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
- Nicolas de Chamfort Quote

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
- Nicolas de Chamfort Quote

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
- Nicolas De Chamfort Quote

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.
- Nicolas de Chamfort Quote

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
- Nicolas de Chamfort Quote

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
- Nicolas de Chamfort Quote

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
- Nicolas de Chamfort Quote

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 De Chamfort Quote

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 de Chamfort Quote

One must not hope to be more than one can be.
- Nicolas de Chamfort Quote

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
- Nicolas de Chamfort Quote

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
- Nicolas de Chamfort Quote

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
- Nicolas de Chamfort Quote

Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
- Nicolas De Chamfort Quote

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
- Nicolas de Chamfort Quote

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
- Nicolas de Chamfort Quote

The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed.
- Nicolas de Chamfort Quote

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
- Nicolas de Chamfort Quote

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
- Nicolas de Chamfort Quote

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
- Nicolas de Chamfort Quote

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
- Nicolas de Chamfort Quote

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
- Nicolas de Chamfort Quote