WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/75941/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Chamfort</b></a></p><blockquote>There are more fools than wise men, and even in the wise there is more folly than wisdom.<br> <br><i>[Il y a plus de fous que de sages, et dans le sage même, il y a plus de folie que de sagesse.]</i></blockquote><p><b>Nicolas Chamfort</b> (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)<br><i>Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée],</i> Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts <i>[Maximes et Pensées],”</i> ch. 2, ¶ 149 (1795) [tr. Merwin (1969)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: <a href="https://wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/75941/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/759…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=dolt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dolt</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=folly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folly</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=fool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fool</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=foolishness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foolishness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=humannature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humannature</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=idiocy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idiocy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=idiots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idiots</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stupidity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wisdom</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=wise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wise</span></a></p>