Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.

Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals,a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.

Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.

War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over

One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.