Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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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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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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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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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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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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