“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)
“A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.”
— Solomon
[Proverbs, 10:1, 9]
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“In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.”
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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
“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
“No love is greater than that of a father for His son.”
Dan Brown book Angels & Demons
Source: Angels & Demons
Anna Comnena book Alexiad
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George Eliot book Middlemarch
Source: Middlemarch