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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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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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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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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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To laugh is proper to man.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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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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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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