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 RABELAISWe will take the good-will for the deed.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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To laugh is proper to man.
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A crier of green sauce.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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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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The dress does not make the monk.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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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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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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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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