Nicholas Chamfort Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Nicholas Chamfort In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small things they show themselves as they are. Nicholas Chamfort An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. Nicholas Chamfort The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. Nicholas Chamfort