Frugality is for the vulgar.
FRANCOIS RABELAISTo laugh is proper to man.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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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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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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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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Row on whatever happens.
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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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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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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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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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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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 good intention does not mean honor.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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A crier of green sauce.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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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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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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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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