The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-08-03
DUMAS, GOLDEN RULES.
The Authors Prescription for
Health, Wealth and Wis
dom.


.sWak two hours every day; sleep seven
hours every night; go to bed always alone,
if you need to sleep; get up as soon as you
wake; work as soon as you get up; cat only
when you are hungry, and drink only when
you thirsty; and eat and drink always
slowly.
s.Never speak except when it is necessary,
and never say more than half of what you
think. Never write anything that you can
not sign, and never do anything that you
cannot avow. Never forget that others will
count upon you, and that you must never
count upon them. Value money at its real
worth, neither more nor less. 1t is good
servant, but a bad master.
'.keep away from women until you are
twenty, and avoid them when you are forty.
Never attempt to produce anything without
a thorough understanding of that which you
undertake, and destroy as little as possible.
Pardon everybody beforehand, to be on the
safe side. Do not despise men; do not
hate them, and do not laugh at them beyond
measure. Pity them.
ssThink of death every morning when you
see the light, and every evening on the aP-
are great look your grief in the face; it will
console you itself and teach you something.
Try to be simple, to become useful, to re-
main free, and before denying God wait I'M
til somebody proves to you that He does not
exist.
ssFor man and for woman there is
succession of duties TO be fulfilled which en-
| ables them to look always ahead and to be-
jects of their most dear affections The
| world would finish too quickly if the first
child was not able survive the death of
| the first mother
s.Misfortunes and tr ials attack noble souls
| without hurting them. They are like the
| rocks Of granite that the covers in times
/ of tempest with it's furious waves, fancying
that it is drowning them, while it IS merely
| washing them, that they reappear again
| in the sunlight more polished and more shin
ing than ever. Adversely embellishcsthoset that
| it cannot cast down. BY the law of nature
4 man should have many children. He
should raise them we'll, so that they may be
| useful; and he should love them, that
they may be happy. To get married when
a man is young is healthy; to choose. in no
matter what class. a good, honest girl: to
| love her with all his heart and soul, and to
| make her reliable companion and a Proli-
! fic mother; to work to raise his children,
and to leave them when dying the example
| of his life-that is the true meaning and OBJ
| ject of life; the rest is only error, crime, or
| folly.
ssIn truth, the average man is only above
ambient humanity on one single plane, vir-
| tue: and, there can be no virtue, without
humanity, those alone have the right to con-
slider themselves the superiors of others to
| whom they acknowledge that they are supe-
higher form called genius, is involuntary.
| 1t is not the result of the efforts of man; it
is, like beauty, the gift of God. That is
why it is of secondary order; and Posterity
Will only remember IL Tor us virtue, us SIN
ccrity, and its communion in universal pro-
gress. Glory for glory's sake Is shameful
| specula ton.
! ssrhe men who rejoice i'll their celebrity
| are simpletons: the men who are proud of
| their genius are fools.
.'rhere is one thing that is especially
beautiful in great and pure affections, and
that is that, after the pleasure which they
afford has passed away, there remains the
! happiness of their recollection.
every often unexpected grief of an I'M
| meritcd misfortune gives to man an energy
| and a perseverance which he could never
find in happiness. And after such trials a
| man often becomes superior who would have
rcnl,ned simple and vulgar if he had always
been happy. He who is without energy
when young will never have it. Grit is not
a winter fruit: it never grows in snow.
| ..One may expect everything from a man
of energy to whom misfortune has given cour-
age and ambition.
| s.ALENANDRE DUMAS fils.''