“Misery is the company of lawsuits.”

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

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.