For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.

Every old poem is sacred.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.