There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
Nicolas ChamfortThe person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
Nicolas ChamfortWhat one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.
Nicolas ChamfortEducation 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.
Nicolas Chamfort