I build only living stones–men.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFrugality is for the vulgar.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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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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I drink for the thirst to come.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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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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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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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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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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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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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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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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