I am going to seek a great perhaps.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Row on whatever happens.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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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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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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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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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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