Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBut where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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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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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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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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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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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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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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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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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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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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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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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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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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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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