Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but… — Jean Jacques Rousseau
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all; when it first appears we can at least prevent its further growth. But do not on this account waste your breath on empty arguments to prove to the youth that he is like other men and subject to the same weaknesses. Make him feel it or he will never know it.
Il n’y a point de folie dont on ne puisse guérir un homme qui n’est pas fou, hors la vanité.
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