A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
FRANCOIS RABELAISYou 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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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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I build only living stones–men.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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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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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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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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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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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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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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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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