Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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A crier of green sauce.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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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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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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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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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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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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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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