Enjoy and give pleasure, without doing harm to yourself or to anyone else — that, I think, is the whole of morality.

Nicolas Chamfort
Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Maxims and Thoughts, 5 (1796) [tr. Merwin (1984)]

 
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