A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
FRANCOIS RABELAISMachination is worth more than force.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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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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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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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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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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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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I build only living stones–men.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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A crier of green sauce.
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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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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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