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Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no read more
Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges
them to have some regard for themselves; so, the read more
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges
them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of
others will often deter tender minds from vice.
[Lat., Avidos vicinum funus ut aegros
Exanimat, mortisque metu sibi parcere cogit;
Sic teneros animos aliena opprobria saepe
Absterrent vitiis.]
Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when
you, though an old man, do worse read more
Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when
you, though an old man, do worse things (than your child)?
[Lat., Unde tibi frontem libertatemque parentis,
Cum facias pejora senex?
You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, demonstrate through personal example what you expect read more
You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others;
it is the only means.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others;
it is the only means.
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and read more
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
Content to follow when we lead the way.
Content to follow when we lead the way.
A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.
A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.
He was indeed the glass
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.
He was indeed the glass
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.