When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

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

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.

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.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.