The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWhen my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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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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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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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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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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