How Comes It That You

It Is Quite A Common And Vulgar Thing Among Humans To Understand, Foresee, Know And Predict The Troubles Of Others. But Oh What A Rare Thing It Is To Predict, Know, Foresee And Understand One's Own Troubles.

One Falls To The Ground In Trying To Sit On Two Stools.

I Won't Undertake War Until I Have Tried All The Arts And Means Of Peace.

A Habit Does Not A Monk Make.

I Recognize In [my Readers] A Specific Form And Individual Property, Which Our Predecessors Called Pantagruelism, By Means Of Which They Never Take Anything The Wrong Way That They Know To Stem From Good, Honest And Loyal Hearts.