To laugh is proper to man.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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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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A good intention does not mean honor.
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