I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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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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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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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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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To laugh is proper to man.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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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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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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