“How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?”

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 you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.

We will take the good-will for the deed.

If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.

I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.

I am going to seek a great perhaps.

One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.