| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 11247 |
| QUOTATION: | 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). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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