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The staff 's deficient care jeopardized the resident 's health and may have cost him his life . But Japan had not supported the U.S. intervention in Vietnam in that precise fashion , and the efforts by Ozawa Ichiro to win approval for this payment required some difficult political deals that cost him his post as Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party . He gave up the rigorous fasts and mortifications , which nearly cost him his life , and devoted himself in his own way to long and earnest meditation , the fruit of which was his firm belief that he had discovered the only true method of escaping from the misery of rebirth and of attaining to Nirvana . Later on he gave him his daughter in marriage , and according to the law of nature she , in a short time , was pregnant by Sasan , and from her Ardashir was born . When he began to come to years of discretion , Cato himself would teach him to read , although he had a servant , a very good grammarian , called Chilo , who taught many others ; but he thought not fit , as he himself said , to have his son reprimanded by a slave , or pulled , it may be , by the ears when found tardy in his lesson : nor would he have him owe to a servant the obligation of so great a thing as his learning ; he himself , therefore ( as we were saying ) , taught him his grammar , law , and his gymnastic exercises . As soon as Little Precious emits his first cry , many parents and grandparents have already mapped out a long-term education plan .