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.

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

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

Nature and wisdom always say the same.

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