I build only living stones–men.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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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 have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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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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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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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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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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