You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBelieve me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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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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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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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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