WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/75322/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Nicolas Chamfort</b></a></p><blockquote>Weak men are the light troops in the army of the wicked. They do more harm than the main force; they overrun and and ravage the country.<br> <br><i>[Les gens faibles sont les troupes légères de l’armée des méchans. Ils font plus de mal que l’armée même; ils infestent et ils ravagent.]</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, ¶ 133 (1795) [tr. Mathers (1926)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: <a href="https://wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/75322/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/753…</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=acquiescence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>acquiescence</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=goingalong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>goingalong</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=badpeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>badpeople</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=complaisance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>complaisance</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=compliant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compliant</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=enabler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enabler</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=enablement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enablement</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=evil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evil</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=evildoers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evildoers</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=irresolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>irresolution</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=wavering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wavering</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=weak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>weak</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=wicked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wicked</span></a></p>