As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.
Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.
An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.
Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.