In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBelieve me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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I build only living stones–men.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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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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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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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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I drink for the thirst to come.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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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