A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

No one ever suddenly became depraved.

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

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.

One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.