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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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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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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Row on whatever happens.
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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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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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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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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