From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.
Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.
The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!
What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?