The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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A crier of green sauce.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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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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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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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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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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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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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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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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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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I build only living stones–men.
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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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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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