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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."
- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11870/">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.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/1425/">Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/education/">Education</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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