The great thing is to be kind to our neighbours. Among strangers the Spartan was selfish, grasping, and… — Jean Jacques Rousseau

The great thing is to be kind to our neighbours. Among strangers the Spartan was selfish, grasping, and unjust, but unselfishness, justice, and harmony ruled his home life. Distrust those cosmopolitans who search out remote duties in their books and neglect those that lie nearest. Such philosophers will love the Tartars to avoid loving their neighbour.

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