There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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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 undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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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.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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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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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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