Nicolas

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“Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)

“There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)

“It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all.”
—Indian proverb, quoted in Sébastien-roch Nicolas de Chamfort, Maxims and Considerations, vol. 1, no. 155 (1796, trans. 1926)