I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.