Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
FRANCOIS RABELAISSuch 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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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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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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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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The appetite grows with eating.
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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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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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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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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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