We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.
Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?
To have a baby, raise him and educate him, is something very valuable. But we, as a society, don't see it that way.
Nature has endowed us with needs; among them are some that she leaves to our own activity to satisfy. Abundant as are the gifts she has bestowed upon us, still more abundant are our desires. We seem born to be dissatisfied.
Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
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