I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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