Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
FRANCOIS RABELAISAppetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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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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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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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 is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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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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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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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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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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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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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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