“Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.”

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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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
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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
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“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
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“Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.”

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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“I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.”

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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