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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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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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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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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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 am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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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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To laugh is proper to man.
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