Quotes By Nicolas Chamfort

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

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

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

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

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

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.