Sébastien-Roch Nicolas, also known as 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... (wikipedia)
Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last
Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day
Most anthologists... of quotations are like those who eat cherries... first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything.
A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers
Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners