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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISKeep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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Row on whatever happens.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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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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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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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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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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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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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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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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