Plutarch's Morals

And we must marry our sons to wives not much richer or better born, for the proverb is a sound one, "Marry in your own walk of life

hope of honour, and fear of punishment; the former inciting to good practices, the latter deterring from bad

ought during all that period to guard and watch and restrain their youths, by precepts, by threats, by entreaties, by advice, by promises, by citing examples