I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWe will take the good-will for the deed.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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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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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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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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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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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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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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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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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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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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