Tell the truth and shame the devil.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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Row on whatever happens.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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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He that has patience may compass anything.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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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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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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I build only living stones–men.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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