“Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.”
“All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.”
“From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?”
“Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.”
“Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.”
“The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.”
“The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.”