I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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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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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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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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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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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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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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