Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

Open your mind before your mouth

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Old age is but a second childhood.

The old are in a second childhood.

When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.