I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
FRANCOIS RABELAISPantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Appetite comes with eating.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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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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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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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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I build only living stones–men.
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