I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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No noble man ever hated 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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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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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 drink for the thirst to come.
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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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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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I build only living stones–men.
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