One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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A crier of green sauce.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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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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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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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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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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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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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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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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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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