Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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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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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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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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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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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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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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