Machination is worth more than force.

Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

Strike the iron whilst it is hot.

The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.

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.

Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.