A son is a mirror in which the father sees himself reflected, and the father is a mirror in which the son sees himself as he will be in the future.

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. life-quotes.co

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he’s wrong.

What is the son but an extension of the father?

By the time a man realises that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he is wrong.

father could hope for in a son.To have

A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth.

man must love his father and yet be free of his father’s expectations and criticisms in order to be a free man.

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

When your father is alive, observe his will. When your father is dead observe his former actions. If, for three years [after the death of your father] you do not change from the ways of your father, you can be called a 'real son (xiào/hsiao)'.

A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody.

The desire to be a father begins in the son, who sees in his own dad who he could become.

A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding. By this, the father will gain two things, both of great moment. The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one; and if you admit him into serious discourses sometimes with you, you will insensibly raise his mind above the usual amusements of youth, and those trifling occupations which it is commonly wasted in. For it is easy to observe, that many young men continue longer in thought and conversation of school-boys than otherwise they would, because their parents keep them at that distance, and in that low rank, by all their carriage to them.