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.
What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.
Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
Remorse turns us against ourselves.
How many fools does it take to make up a public?
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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