Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe appetite grows with eating.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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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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Row on whatever happens.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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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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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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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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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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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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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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