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

Never did a great man hate good wine.

A good intention does not mean honor.

Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.

All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.

Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.

If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.

An old monkey never makes a pretty face.

I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.

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

To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.

Death is the vast perhaps.

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

One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

If your goal is anything but profitability – if it’s to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader – you’ll hit problems.

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

The purpose of the corporation must be redefined as creating shared value, not just profit per se. This will drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Chasing profits and building a long-term profit model are two different things.

Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn’t a program it has to be a way of life.

I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.

To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.