"Gargantua" Quotes
A satirical tale chronicling the adventures and misadventures of the giant Gargantua.
classics | 176 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in Him.
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
The belly is not filled with fair words.
Let us drink sparingly, for wine is the enemy of reason.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
It is not the quantity of the meat, but the cheerfulness of the guests, which makes the feast.
The world is but a continual masquerade; every one has a part in it, and mine happens to be a satyr.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
All great saints and sect founders have had their revelations in the wilderness.
