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 RABELAISScience without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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A crier of green sauce.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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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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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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