A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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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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The dress does not make the monk.
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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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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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