Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe appetite grows with eating.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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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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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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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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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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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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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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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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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 perhaps.
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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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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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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