Social man lives constantly outside himself.
Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
To live is not breathing it is action.
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.