France, Writer April 6, 1741 – April, 13, 1794.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas, known in his adult life as Nicolas Chamfort and as Sébastien Nicolas de Chamfort was a French writer, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms. He was secretary to Louis XVI's sister, and of the Jacobin club.
And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)
Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
Change, change,--we all covet change.
Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.
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.
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