To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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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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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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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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The dress does not make the monk.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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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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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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