The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
FRANCOIS RABELAISAppetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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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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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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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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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.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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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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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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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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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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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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