The dress does not make the monk.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHe who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Appetite comes with eating.
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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 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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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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Row on whatever happens.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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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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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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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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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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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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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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