Nicolas Chamfort Quotes
The majority of those who put together collections of verses or epigrams resemble those who eat cherries or oysters: they begin by choosing the best and end by eating everything.



The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.



Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.



Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures



The poor are the blacks of Europe








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