"La pauvreté met le crime au rabais."
— Nicolas Chamfort
January 1, 1970
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Academics from France
Playwrights from France
Journalists from France
Philosophical pessimists
Original Language: English
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Maximes et Pensées (Van Bever, Paris :1923), #312 — Poverty puts crime at a discount. — Reflections; alternately translated as: "Poverty sets a reduced price on crime"; in The Viking Book of Aphorisms (1962).
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Maximes et Pensées (Van Bever, Paris :1923), #312 — Poverty puts crime at a discount. — Reflections; alternately translated as: "Poverty sets a reduced price on crime"; in The Viking Book of Aphorisms (1962).