Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHungry bellies have no ears.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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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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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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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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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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