"We must carefully teach children to detest vices for what they consist in; we must teach them their natural ugliness, so that they flee them not only in their deeds but in their minds: the very thought of them should be hateful, whatever mask they hide behind."
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Montaigne, Essays, as translated by M. A. Screech, p. 124
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