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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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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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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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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