Chamfort

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    Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
    —Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)

    Education must have two foundations—morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defence 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.
    —Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)

    Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
    —Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)