I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIt’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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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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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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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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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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