You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
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You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
You cannot conceive the many without the one.
The greatest penalty of evildoing – namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways – I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.