Tell the truth and shame the devil.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIndeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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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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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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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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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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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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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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I drink for the thirst to come.
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