Misery is the company of lawsuits.

Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.

There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.

Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.

In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

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.