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.
ATTRIBUTION:
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794), French writer, wit. The Cynic’s Breviary, ed. William G. Hutchison (1902).
