We will take the good-will for the deed.
FRANCOIS RABELAISNature 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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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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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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