The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
Bio: Simonides of Ceos was a Greek lyric poet, born at Ioulis on Ceos. The scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria included him in the canonical list of nine lyric poets, along with Bacchylides and Pindar.
