For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Even his griefs are a joy, long after, to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.
By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
It is a wise child that knows his own father
Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.
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