Plutarch's Morals

And we must marry our sons to wives not much richer or better born, for the proverb is a sound one, "Marry in your own walk of life

hope of honour, and fear of punishment; the former inciting to good practices, the latter deterring from bad

ought during all that period to guard and watch and restrain their youths, by precepts, by threats, by entreaties, by advice, by promises, by citing examples

For that prime of life is prodigal in pleasure, and frisky, and needs a bridle, so that those parents who do not strongly check that period, are foolishly, if unawares, giving their youths license for vice

By this speech he made Alexander his enemy

For silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech

And what has not been said is easy to say, while what has been once said can never be recalled

When two are talking, and one of them is in a passion, he is the wiser who first gives way

the tongue must be under control, so must the temper and the hands

We must also keep our sons from filthy language.