The Satyricon — Volume 01: Introduction
Chapter 5
Boys play in the schools, the young men are laughed at Deferred pleasures are a long time coming Egyptians "commercialized" that incomparable art Errors committed in the name of religion Everything including the children, is devoted to ambition Laughed ourselves out of a most disgraceful quarrel No one will confess the errors he was taught in his school days Priests, animated by an hypocritical mania for prophecy See or hear nothing at all of the affairs of every-day life The teachers, who must gibber with lunatics They secure their ends, save by setting snares for the ears