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

There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.

Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?