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

  • If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

  • Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

  • One must not hope to be more than one can be.

  • Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.