We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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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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Death is the vast perhaps.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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