But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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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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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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