In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIndeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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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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The appetite grows with eating.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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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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