I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.

The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible ..., we'll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything the wrong way that they know to stem from good, honest and loyal hearts.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.