Nicolas Chamfort

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

The sunset glow of self possession.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

False modesty is the most decent of all deceptions.

Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.

We take our colors chameleon like from each other.

Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.

Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.