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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISTo good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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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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A good intention does not mean honor.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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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 dress does not make the monk.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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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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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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