The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.
Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.
Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.
Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.