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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISPantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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I build only living stones–men.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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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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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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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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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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