Nicolas

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“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)

“Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative. The remedy is death.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)

“Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)