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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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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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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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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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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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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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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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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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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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