Nicolas Chamfort Quote

Both the court and the general public give a conventional value to men and things, and then are surprised to find themselves deceived by it. This is as if arithmeticians should give a variable an arbitrary value to the figures in a sum, and then, after restoring their true and regular value in the addition, be astonished at the incorrectness of their answer.


Maximes et Pensées, #199


Both the court and the general public give a conventional value to men and things, and then are surprised to find themselves deceived by it. This is...

Both the court and the general public give a conventional value to men and things, and then are surprised to find themselves deceived by it. This is...

Both the court and the general public give a conventional value to men and things, and then are surprised to find themselves deceived by it. This is...

Both the court and the general public give a conventional value to men and things, and then are surprised to find themselves deceived by it. This is...