Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

He who wants to warm himself in old age must build a fireplace in his youth

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

As in this body, there are for the embodied one childhood, youth, old age, even so is there the taking on of another body.