Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThere is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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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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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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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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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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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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