I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFrom the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Row on whatever happens.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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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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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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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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