I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
FRANCOIS RABELAISScience without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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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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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 the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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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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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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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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Machination is worth more than force.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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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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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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