Never did a great man hate good wine.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThere are more old drunkards than old physicians.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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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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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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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 am going to seek a great perhaps.
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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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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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