Nicolas Chamfort Quotes About Prudence

Quotes about: Prudence

• It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Opinion, Dare, Fishes

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

• 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”

• [Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Men, Saving, He Man

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

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