FastSaying
The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. [Lat., Prima commendiato proficiscitur a modestia tum pietate in parentes, tum in suos benevolentia.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Youth
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
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His deeds do not agree with his words. [Lat., Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant.]
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