Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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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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 grand perhaps.
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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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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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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 know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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The dress does not make the monk.
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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