If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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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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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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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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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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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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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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