The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity,…

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The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable. ✨ Plato (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated), p.974, Delphi Classics
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