It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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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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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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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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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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