Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHe who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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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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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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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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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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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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I drink for the thirst to come.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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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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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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