Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.
There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.