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A strong personality can maintain itself without the help of this particular weapon.

— Jean Piaget The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

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Every observer has noted that the younger the child, the less sense he has of his own ego.

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Between the various types of rules which we shall give there will therefore be at once continuity of function and difference of structure.

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There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism.

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In real life the child is in the presence, not of isolated acts, but of personalities that attract or repel him as a global whole.

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There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult.

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