Storia do Mogor 85.4

85.4

'It is possible for a prince when grown up to forget the good lessons received in his early days, and give himself up to the vices common to mankind. But it is impossible that an untrained child should grow up to be a man of virtue. This is why Aristotle declared that children owed as much to their teachers as to their parents; the latter give physical, the former spiritual, life. But, all things considered, I hold pupils to be more indebted to their teachers than to their parents, the reason being that corporeal life without the life of the mind is of no value; and it would be better for anyone not to have material life if deprived of spiritual life. These are the virtues that arise from sound teaching, and without them no one can fitly reign over a kingdom.