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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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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISOf a young hermit, an old devil.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI drink no more than a sponge.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI drink for the thirst to come.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe dress does not make the monk.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIndeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHow can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
FRANCOIS RABELAISAppetite comes with eating.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIn their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI 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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISRow on whatever happens.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWe will take the good-will for the deed.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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.
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