Nicolas Chamfort

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

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.