A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
FRANCOIS RABELAISAppetite comes with eating.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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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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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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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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A habit does not a monk make.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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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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