You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
FRANCOIS RABELAISNature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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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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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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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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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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