“I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.”
Act 3, sc. 5
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
“Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son”
To Mr. Lawrence (1656)
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English epic poet 1608–1674Related quotes
“In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.”
Croesus
(-596–-546 BC) King of Lydia
Quoted by Herodotus in The Histories, Book I http://books.google.com/books?id=QA4ZZ5gRpnkC&q="In+peace+the+sons+bury+their+fathers+but+in+war+the+fathers+bury+their+sons"&pg=PA45#v=onepage
“A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son.”
Simon Soloveychik
(1930–1996) Russia writer and philosopher
Book 1, part 1, ch. 5
Pedagogika dlya vseh (Parenting For Everyone) (1977–1986)
“In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons.”
Variant translation: In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Book 1, Ch. 87.
The Histories
Thomas Fuller (writer)
(1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
These precepts were first collected as advice for Fuller's son John.
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1751) : Many a Man would have been worse, if his Estate had been better.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“404. One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.”
George Herbert
(1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“If my character is flawed by a few minor faults, but is otherwise decent and moral, if you can point out only a few scattered blemishes on an otherwise immaculate surface, if no one can accuse me of greed, or of prurience, or of profligacy, if I live a virtuous life, free of defilement (pardon, for a moment, my self-praise), and if I am to my friends a good friend, my father deserves all the credit… As it is now, he deserves from me unstinting gratitude and praise. I could never be ashamed of such a father, nor do I feel any need, as many people do, to apologize for being a freedman's son.”
Atqui si vitiis mediocribus ac mea paucis
mendosa est natura, alioqui recta, velut si
egregio inspersos reprehendas corpore naevos,
si neque avaritiam neque sordes nec mala lustra
obiciet vere quisquam mihi, purus et insons,
ut me collaudem, si et vivo carus amicis...
at hoc nunc
laus illi debetur et a me gratia maior.
nil me paeniteat sanum patris huius, eoque
non, ut magna dolo factum negat esse suo pars,
quod non ingenuos habeat clarosque parentis,
sic me defendam.
Book I, satire vi, lines 65–92
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
