You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
FRANCOIS RABELAISGiving words is an act of lovers.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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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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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Row on whatever happens.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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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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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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