There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe appetite grows with eating.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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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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A crier of green sauce.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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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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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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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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The dress does not make the monk.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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