Never did a great man hate good wine.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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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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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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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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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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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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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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