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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISOne falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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Row on whatever happens.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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