Nicolas Chamfort
  • Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

  • It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

  • The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

  • Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

  • Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.