From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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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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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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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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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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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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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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