Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
FRANCOIS RABELAISCan there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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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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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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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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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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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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