If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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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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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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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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If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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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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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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