Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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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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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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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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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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