I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
FRANCOIS RABELAISTell the truth and shame the devil.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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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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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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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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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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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