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La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

Book by Luc de Clapiers · 4 quotes · Men, Ifs, Sometimes

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“Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.”