Never did a great man hate good wine.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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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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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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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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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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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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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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