Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe appetite grows with eating.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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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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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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A crier of green sauce.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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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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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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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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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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