Death is the vast perhaps.

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

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.

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

Appetite comes with eating.

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.

Nature abhors a vacuum.