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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISMisery is the company of lawsuits.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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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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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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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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The dress does not make the monk.
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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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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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I build only living stones–men.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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