All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHalf the world does not know how the other half lives.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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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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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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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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He that has patience may compass anything.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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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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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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To laugh is proper to man.
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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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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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