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.

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.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more think less and stop watching ourselves live.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.