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Nicholas Chamfort
(6 Apr 1741 - 13 Apr 1794)
French wit and writer whose works include stories, dramas, and political articles. The aphorisms in his posthumously published Maximes et Pensées (1795) attacked the corruption of the period.
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Science Quotes by Nicholas Chamfort (2)
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
— Nicholas Chamfort
Maximes et pensées (1796), Vol. 1, No. 17.
The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests—a gold mine.
— Nicholas Chamfort
In Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort and William Stanley Merwin, Products of the Perfected Civilization: Selected Writings of Chamfort (1969), 154.
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