In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI am going to seek a grand perhaps.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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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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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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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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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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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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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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Death is the vast perhaps.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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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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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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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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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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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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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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