A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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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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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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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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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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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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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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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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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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