Nicolas Chamfort Quotes About Society
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
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Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
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We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.
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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.
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Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.
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