From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?
The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.
Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.
Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?
Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.