Evil events from evil causes spring.

Old age is but a second childhood.

I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

Chorus of women: [...] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way.

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.