By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin.

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.

To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.

Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.