Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe appetite grows with eating.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Row on whatever happens.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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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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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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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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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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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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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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