I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
FRANCOIS RABELAISAppetite comes with eating.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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