He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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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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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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To laugh is proper to man.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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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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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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