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 RABELAISWisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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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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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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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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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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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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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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