We like other people to show themselves to us as they really are.
Kindness effects more than severity.
If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.
Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.