Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

Pardon is granted to necessity.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.