If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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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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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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If 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.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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