The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
FRANCOIS RABELAISOh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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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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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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A crier of green sauce.
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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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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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