Ought his father, tell me, to have fallen in with him,
Or he with his father? And then what he is pleased to call
A hardship, was nothing of the kind: the so-called severities
Of fathers are much of a piece: the least strict do not like
To see their sons continually in bad company,
Continually drinking: and so they are sparing in what they allow them;
For such restrictions, remember, promote good morals.
But when a man’s mind has once become the slave
Of evil passions, he is driven of necessity from bad to worse.
There’s wisdom, Pamphilus, in the saying, By others’ faults