The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBring down the curtain, the farce is over.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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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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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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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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