I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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Nature 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.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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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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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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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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Death is the vast perhaps.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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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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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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I build only living stones–men.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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