The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe 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.
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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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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Row on whatever happens.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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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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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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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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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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