Top 15 Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

Happiness is not easy to find. It's very difficult to find it in yourself — and impossible to find anywhere else.

All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.

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

In order not to find life unbearable, you must accept two things: the ravages of time and the injustices of man.

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead. [last words]

If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

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

Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.