Nicolas Chamfort Quotes About Morality

Quotes about: Morality

• The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Pride, Vanity, Differences

• Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Education, Self, Two

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

• To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Giving, Morality, Injury

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