I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHow do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Row on whatever happens.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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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 no more than a sponge.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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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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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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