The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

From the end spring new beginnings.

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.

Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison.

When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.

There is always something new out of Africa.

Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.