Every great house is full of haughty servants.

Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature's gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue.

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

Of what avail are pedigrees?

Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?

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

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.