But who guards the guardians?
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.
It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]