I drink no more than a sponge.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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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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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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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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