"Les économistes sont des chirurgiens qui … opérant à merveille sur le mort et martyrisant le vif."
— Nicolas Chamfort

January 1, 1970

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Maximes et Pensées, #458 — Economists are surgeons ... who operate beautifully on the dead and torment the living. — Maxims, #458