Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHungry bellies have no ears.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Row on whatever happens.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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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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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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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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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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