What helps it now, that Byron bore, With haughty scorn which mocked the smart, Through Europe to the Aetolian shore The pageant of his bleeding heart? That thousands counted every groan, And Europe made his woe her own?

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems: Second Series,'Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse', l.133^8.

Les enfants sont hautains, de¤  daigneux, cole'  res, envieux, curieux, inte¤  resse¤  s, paresseux, volages, timides, intempe¤  rants, menteurs, dissimule¤  s†ils ne veulent point souffrir de mal, et aiment a'   en faire: ils sont de¤ j a'   des hommes. Children are haughty, disdainful, angry, envious, curious, interested, lazy, fickle, shy, self-indulgent, liars, deceivers†they do not wish to suffer evil, but like to do evil: theyare already adults.

-La Bruye'  re,Jean de
  Les Caracte'  res ou les m½urs de ce sie'  cle,'De l'homme', no.50.