When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
FRANCOIS RABELAISPantagruel 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I build only living stones–men.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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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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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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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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