I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe appetite grows with eating.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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I 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.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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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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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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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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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 appetite grows with eating.
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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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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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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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