Michel de Montaigne: Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if y — Michel de Montaigne

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

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