When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBelieve me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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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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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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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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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 won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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