Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFriends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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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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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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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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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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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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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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