Giving words is an act of lovers.
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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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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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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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 never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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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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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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