Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. Its a palliative. The remedy is death. – 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
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws. – Nicolas Chamfort
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. – Nicolas Chamfort
One must not hope to be more than one can be. – Nicolas Chamfort
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. – Nicolas Chamfort
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France. – Nicolas Chamfort
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. – 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. – Nicolas Chamfort
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society. – Nicolas Chamfort
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. – Nicolas Chamfort
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. – Nicolas Chamfort
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. – Nicolas Chamfort
It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we can live happily in this world. – Nicolas Chamfort
