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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI drink for the thirst to come.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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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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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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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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To laugh is proper to man.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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