A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
FRANCOIS RABELAISOh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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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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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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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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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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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.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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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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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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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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