Nicolas Chamfort, In Words

 

  1. The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
  2. Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich because he’s always ready to escape their control
  3. Sometimes when a person sees the roguery of poor people and the thievery of people in high positions, he is tempted to regard society as a forest full of robbers, the most dangerous of which are the policemen that are set up to stop the others.
  4. Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
  5. Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
  6. In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen, in small things, they show themselves as they are

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