My intention is not to provoke but to appease; not to assail but to defend; not to conquer but to protect my loyal subjects and hereditary pro...
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Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist,...
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The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's own growing inner self.... T...
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the...
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Draw the curtain, the fraud is over.
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And tough shit for money. Some day I'll have only too much: because I have a philosopher's stone that draws money from purses, like a magnet a...
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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I have had no other treasure in this world than to see you once perfect and complete, as much in virtue, honesty and wisdom, as in all free an...
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Every married man is in danger of being cuckolded. Cuckoldry is naturally one of the prerogatives of marriage.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to destruction. But, by God's good...
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Panurge was of medium stature, neither too large, nor too small ... and subject by nature to a malady known at the time as 'Money-deficiency,'...
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuou...
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.
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Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.
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A bellyful is a bellyful.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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