The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Row on whatever happens.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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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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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 crier of green sauce.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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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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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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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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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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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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