Nicolas de Chamfort

“There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.”

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”

“A man's opinion of the world is the confession of his character.”

“The public! The public! How many fools does it take to make a public?”

“One should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more disgusting in the day ahead.”

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

“Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.”

“We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.”

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

“A man must be a genius to make a good husband.”

“Hope is a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us.”

“Living is a sickness from which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.”

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”

“Celebrity: the advantage of being known to those who do not know you.”

“Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.”

“Celebrity: the advantage of being known to those who do not know us.”

“Enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.”

“There are more fools than wise men, and even in the wise man himself there is more folly than wisdom.”

“The little I have seen of the world and know of the history of mankind, teaches me to look upon the errors and afflictions of others with compassion.”

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