If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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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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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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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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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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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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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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