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.
Nicolas de Chamfort

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

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
Nicolas de Chamfort

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
Nicolas de Chamfort

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
Nicolas de Chamfort

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
Nicolas de Chamfort

The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed.
Nicolas de Chamfort

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
Nicolas de Chamfort

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
Nicolas de Chamfort

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
Nicolas de Chamfort

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

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
Nicolas de Chamfort

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicolas de Chamfort

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
Nicolas de Chamfort

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
Nicolas de Chamfort