How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
FRANCOIS RABELAISAn old monkey never makes a pretty face.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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The appetite grows with eating.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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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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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Row on whatever happens.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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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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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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