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.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they're less than women.

I am going to seek a grand perhaps.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

Appetite comes with eating.