I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
FRANCOIS RABELAISNever did a great man hate good wine.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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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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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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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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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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A crier of green sauce.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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