I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
FRANCOIS RABELAISTime, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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A habit does not a monk make.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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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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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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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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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.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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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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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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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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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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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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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn 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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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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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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