I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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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.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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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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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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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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