A Quote by Homer
It is a wise child that knows his own father.
[Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]
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The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
[Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret.]
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Man is his own worst enemy.
[Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]
Posterity gives to every man his true honor.
[Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.
When the father is going on in his journey, if the child will not goe on, but stands gaping upon vanity, and when the father calls, he comes not, the onely way is this: the father steps aside behind a bush, and then the child runs and cries, and if he gets his father againe, he forsakes all his trifles, and walkes on more faster and more cheerefully with his father than ever.
A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers.
Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.
It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant."
[Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.
To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and sees himself in the face of the boy. He imagines what the boy sees when he looks at him and finds himself becoming his own father. Inexplicably, he is moved by this. It is not just the sight of the boy that moves him, not even the thought of standing inside his father, but what he sees in the boy of his own vanished past. It is a nostalgia for his own life that he feels, perhaps, a memory of his own boyhood as a son to his father.
He is not poor who has the use of necessary things.
[Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]
As in the natural life a child must have a father and a mother, so in the supernatural life of grace a true child of the Church must have God for his Father and Mary for his mother. If he prides himself on having God for his Father but does not give to Mary the tender affection of a true child, he is an impostor and his father is the devil.
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.
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