Maxims and Considerations

<p>Sébastien Nicolas de Chamfort (1741-1794) was hailed by Friedrich Nietzsche as the wittiest of all moralists ... a man who was rich in depths and backgrounds of the soul-gloomy suffering ardent-a thinker who needed laughter as a remedy against life and who almost considered himself lost on every day on which he had not laughed. His collected <em>Maxims and Considerations</em> rank among the greatest books of aphorisms alongside La Rochefoucauld. This superb translation by E. Powys Mathers first published as two separate volumes in 1926 is now available again.</p>