Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?
Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
I am going to seek a great perhaps.
According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.
An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
No clock is more regular than the belly.
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
Frugality is for the vulgar.
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
Don't limp in front of the lame.
If you wish to be good "Pantagruelists" (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper. [Fr., Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que--doufle D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.]
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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