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.
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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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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Row on whatever happens.
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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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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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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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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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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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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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