It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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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Machination is worth more than force.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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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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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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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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I drink for the thirst to come.
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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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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Row on whatever happens.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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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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Appetite comes with eating.
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