WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/8973/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Chamfort</b></a></p><blockquote>Education must be based on two things: ethics and prudence; ethics in order to develop your good qualities, prudence to protect you from other people’s bad ones. If you attach too great an importance to goodness, you produce credulous fools; if you’re too prudent, you produce self-serving, scheming rogues.<br> <br><i>[L’Éducation doit porter sur deux bases, la morale et la prudence ; la morale, pour appuyer la vertu ; la prudence, pour vous défendre contre les vices d’autrui. En faisant pencher la balance du côté de la morale, vous ne faites que des dupes ou des martyrs; en la faisant pencher de l’autre côté, vous faites des calculateurs égoïstes.]</i></blockquote><p><b>Nicolas Chamfort</b> (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)<br><i>Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée],</i> Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts <i>[Maximes et Pensées],”</i> ch. 5, ¶ 321 (1795) [tr. Parmée (2003), ¶ 205]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: <a href="https://wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/8973/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/897…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=care" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>care</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=credulity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>credulity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=dupe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dupe</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=egotist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>egotist</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=fool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fool</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=martyr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>martyr</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=morality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>morality</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=prudence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prudence</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=rogue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rogue</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=scheming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scheming</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=values" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>values</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=vice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vice</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>virtue</span></a></p>