Francois Rabelais on perish
Francois Rabelais125 quotes · See all“If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.”
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais 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.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais A habit does not a monk make.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais 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.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais Frugality is for the vulgar.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais Tell the truth and shame the devil.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais Misery is the company of lawsuits.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais I drink no more than a sponge.
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