"When, finally, you understand that your father was usually right, you have a son who is growing up, convinced that his father usually is not right. If you do not learn from your mistakes, there is no point in doing them "
Lawrence Peter

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"Children are always willing to do anything. This is very useful, and therefore not only should not interfere with this, but it is necessary to take measures so that they always have something to do "
Jan Comenius

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"My child looks like a mother ... It's loud, piercing! But my eyes are guilty, running around ... "
Mikhail Zhvanetsky

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"Children play soldiers. It's clear. But why do soldiers play in children? "
Karl Kraus

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"An adult cannot become a child again without falling into childhood. But is not it pleasing to the naivete of the child and should not he himself aspire to reproduce the truth inherent in the child at a higher level? "
Karl Marx

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"Children's trouble is boundless. Despair in an adult, perhaps, is incomparable with the despair of a child "
Iris Murdoch

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"To recover from children for misdemeanors, which they did not commit, or at least severely punish them for petty faults - means to lose all their trust and respect"
Jean LaBruyer

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"True, children must - while they remain, children - be led by the parental authority, but at the same time must be prepared to not always remain children"
Christophe Wieland

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"Constantly giving the children rewards is not good. Through this, they become selfish, and hence the corrupt way of thinking develops "
Immanuel Kant

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"Ungrateful son is worse than another's: it's a criminal because a son has no right to be indifferent to his mother"
Guy de Maupassant

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"One can not punish a child whom the child does not like"
John Locke

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