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

An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.

But who guards the guardians?

To lay down one's life for the truth.

Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.