Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Who were these clowns?
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.