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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISDon’t limp in front of the lame.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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A crier of green sauce.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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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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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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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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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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