Giving words is an act of lovers.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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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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I drink for the thirst to come.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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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I build only living stones–men.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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