All men have need of the gods.

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.