Quote of Nicolas Chamfort - Give and take pleasure, without harming...
Biography - Nicolas Chamfort:
French writer.
Born: 1740 - Died: 1794
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1740 - Died: 1794
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: France
Give and take pleasure, without harming yourself or anyone else — that, I think, sums up morality.
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Quote source: Maximes et pensées
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(French, German)
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Quotes for: morality
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Nicolas Chamfort also said...
Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.
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