All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.

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 King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.

It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.

Hungry bellies have no cars.