In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. 

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.