Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.Nicolas de Chamfort
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.Nicolas de Chamfort
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.Nicolas de 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 de Chamfort
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.Nicolas de Chamfort
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.Nicolas de 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 de Chamfort
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.Nicolas de Chamfort
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
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.Nicolas de Chamfort
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.Nicolas de Chamfort
