A young man when he enters society must be preserved from vanity rather than from sensibility; he succumbs… — Jean Jacques Rousseau

A young man when he enters society must be preserved from vanity rather than from sensibility; he succumbs rather to the tastes of others than to his own, and self-love is responsible for more libertines than love. Self-love makes more libertines than love.

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