It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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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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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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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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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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