WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/74655/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Chamfort</b></a></p><blockquote>Madame de Tencin was gentle-mannered but quite unscrupulous, capable of absolutely anything. On one occasion people were praising the gentleness of her nature. “Yes,” an abbé commented, “if it was in her interest to poison you, I’m sure she’d choose the pleasantest poison possible.”<br> <br><i>[Mme de Tencin, avec des manières douces, était une femme sans principes et capable de tout, exactement. Un jour, on louait sa douceur: «Oui, dit l’abbé Trublet, si elle eût eu intérêt de vous empoisonner, elle eût choisi le poison le plus doux.»]</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 Perfectionnée],</i> Part 2 “Characters and Anecdotes <i>[Caractères et Anecdotes],”</i> ¶ 662 (1795) [tr. Parmée (2003), ¶ 455]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: <a href="https://wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/74655/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/746…</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=affability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>affability</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=kindness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kindness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=manners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manners</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=niceness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>niceness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=poison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poison</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=politeness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politeness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=scruples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scruples</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=sweetness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sweetness</span></a></p>