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 More Quotes by Nicholas Chamfort More Quotes From 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 The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. Nicholas Chamfort