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 RABELAISI’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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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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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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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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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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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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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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