Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
FRANCOIS RABELAISDebts and lies are generally mixed together.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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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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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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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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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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