In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
FRANCOIS RABELAISLet every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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Row on whatever happens.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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