Nicolas 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 van...”

“There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.”

“Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.”

“Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.”

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

“Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.”