Complete Maxims and Thoughts (The Works of Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort Book 1) by Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (Author), Tim Siniscalchi
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Overview: “Chamfort”, wrote Balzac in a letter, “put whole volumes in a single biting phrase, while nowadays it’s a marvel to find a biting phrase in a volume.”
“Chamfort,” said John Stuart Mill, “is the nobler La Rochefoucauld of the 18th century.”
“Never a day passes,” confessed Mirabeau, the legendary statesman, “in which I do not find myself saying – ‘Chamfort would scorn this, I won’t do it, I shan’t write it.”
He was friends with the foremost philosophers of the enlightenment – Voltaire, Diderot, Helvetius, D’Alembert. And he was courted by the highest members of the nobility and the queen Marie Antoinette – despite being the son of a grocer. Who later stormed the Bastille.
Nietzsche said his aphorisms carried on the spirit of the Renaissance and of what was best in antiquity. But they are almost wholly unknown today to the English-speaking world, and this is the only complete English translation available of his Maxims and Thoughts.
His sayings are full of passion, daring and sincerity; he was a philosopher who was intimately familiar with society, both the rich and the poor, and summarized the lessons he found most useful on small sheets of paper he saved throughout his life. After he died, they were found hidden in his desk, and they are translated and published here.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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