Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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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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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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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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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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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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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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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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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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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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I drink no more than a sponge.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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