Nicolas Chamfort Quotes About Society

Quotes about: Society

• Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Class, Two, Society

• Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Funny, Class, Two

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

• 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”

• Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Men, Small Changes, Society

• We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Color, Society, Chameleon

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