Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
FRANCOIS RABELAISYou have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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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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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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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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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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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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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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Appetite comes with eating.
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Row on whatever happens.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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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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