For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIn their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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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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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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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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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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Death is the vast perhaps.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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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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A crier of green sauce.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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Can 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.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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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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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Nature 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.
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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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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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