A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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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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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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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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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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