Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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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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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A crier of green sauce.
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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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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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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