The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Example is always more efficacious than precept.
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We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.