He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher...and that is a good thing for any man. Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. Nothing is to be preferred before justice. | 
