“Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.”

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.

He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.

Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.

In everything we ought to look at the end.

The strongest passion is fear.

One returns to the place one came from.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.

The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.

But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.

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

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.

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.