If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
FRANCOIS RABELAISScience without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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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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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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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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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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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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