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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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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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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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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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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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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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The appetite grows with eating.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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