Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThere are more old drunkards than old physicians.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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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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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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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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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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