It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
FRANCOIS RABELAISTo good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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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.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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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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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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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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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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