Never did a great man hate good wine.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBring down the curtain, the farce is over.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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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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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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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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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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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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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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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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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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