I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Appetite comes with eating.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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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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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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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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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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