I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.

If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries," I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.

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.

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