Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe dress does not make the monk.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Row on whatever happens.
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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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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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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 am going to seek a great perhaps.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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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 am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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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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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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