Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.

For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.

The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.