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.

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

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.

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

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