Nicolas Chamfort Quote

Qualities of a too superior order render a man less adapted to society. One does not go to market with big lumps of gold; one goes with silver or small change.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


Qualities of a too superior order render a man less adapted to society. One does not go to market with big lumps of gold; one goes with silver or...

Qualities of a too superior order render a man less adapted to society. One does not go to market with big lumps of gold; one goes with silver or...

Qualities of a too superior order render a man less adapted to society. One does not go to market with big lumps of gold; one goes with silver or...

Qualities of a too superior order render a man less adapted to society. One does not go to market with big lumps of gold; one goes with silver or...