I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe dress does not make the monk.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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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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Appetite comes with eating.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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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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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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