The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. - Nicholas Chamfort
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. - Nicholas Chamfort
In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are. - Nicholas Chamfort
People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess. - Nicholas Chamfort
His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last. - Nicholas Chamfort