Be a man; restrain your heart within the limits of your manhood.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education (1762). copy citation

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Author Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Source Emile, or On Education
Topic heart limit
Date 1762
Language English
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Note Translated by Barbara Foxley
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“he is guilty if he loves his own wife so greatly as to sacrifice everything to that love. "Do not expect me to supply you with lengthy precepts of morality, I have only one rule to give you which sums up all the rest. Be a man; restrain your heart within the limits of your manhood. Study and know these limits; however narrow they may be, we are not unhappy within them; it is only when we wish to go beyond them that we are unhappy, only when, in our mad passions, we try to attain the impossible;” source