To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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Appetite comes with eating.
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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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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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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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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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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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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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I build only living stones–men.
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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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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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