Децата хвърлят камъни по жабите заради забавлението, но жабите не умират наужким - Plutarch

After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. "Your advice," said Cicero, "were good if we were to fight jackdaws."

To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you."

That best and justest fabric of things was of no long continuance, because it wanted that cement which should have kept all together, education.