Famous Quotes by Nicholas Chamfort

Below are famous quotes by Nicholas Chamfort - (1741 - 1794).

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

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