I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIt is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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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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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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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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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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