One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe dress does not make the monk.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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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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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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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 won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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