I drink for the thirst to come.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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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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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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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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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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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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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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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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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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