Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBring down the curtain, the farce is over.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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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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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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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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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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I build only living stones–men.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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