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Let Nothing Offensive To The Ear Or The Eye Enter These Thresholds, Within Which Youth Dwells.

But With What Incessant And Grievous Ills Is Old Age Surrounded!

For The Short-lived Bloom And Contracted Span Of Brief And Wretched Life Is Fast Fleeting Away! While We Are Drinking And Calling For Garlands, Ointments, And Women, Old Age Steals Swiftly On With Noiseless Step.

From Where Can Your Authority And License As A Parent Come From, When You Who Are Old, Do Worse Things?

The Greatest Reverence Is Due To A Child! If You Are Contemplating A Disgraceful Act, Despise Not Your Child's Tender Years.