If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBecause 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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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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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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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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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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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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