Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThere is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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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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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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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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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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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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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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