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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISKeep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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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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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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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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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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