Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

- Nicolas Chamfort

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

- Nicolas Chamfort

If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

- 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

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

- Nicolas Chamfort

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

- Nicolas Chamfort

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

- Nicolas Chamfort

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

- Nicolas Chamfort

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

- Nicolas Chamfort