The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.

To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.