A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.

See the effect of commercial intercourse.

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.