If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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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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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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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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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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Row on whatever happens.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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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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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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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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I drink no more than a sponge.
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