The card of the president Abraham Lincon to the professor of his son
Wanted professor,
My son has to learn that no all the men are just neither all are truthful.
Teach him that by each villain there is a hero, that by each egoistic there is a generous.
Also teach him that by each enemy there is a fellow and that more costs coin won
That coin found.
I want that it learn to lose and also to enjoy correctly of the victories.
Move of the envy and that know the deep joy of the contentamiento.
It do that it appreciate the reading of good books without that it leave to entertain with
The birds, the flowers of the field and the wonderful seen of lakes and mountains.
That it learn to play without violence with his friends.
Explain him that costs more a defeat honrosa that a shameful victory.
That creates in himself same, in his capacities, although it remain solito and have to
lidiar Against all.
Teach him to be gentile with the good and hard with the perverse.
Instruct it to that it do not do the things because simply others do it; that it was
Lover of the values.
That it learn to hear to all but that to the hour of the truth decide by himself same.
Teach him to smile and to have the humour when it was sad.
And teach him that sometimes the men also cry.
Teach him to ignore the cries of the crowds that only demand right without
Pay the cost of his obligations.
Treat it well, but no it mime neither adulate it. Leave it that do strong solito.
Incúlquele Value and prowess but also patience, proof and abstemiousness.
Transmit him a firm and solid faith in the Creator. Having faith in God also
It will have it in the men.
I understand that I am asking him a lot but it do all that that can.
Abrahan Lincoln, 1820
