Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Row on whatever happens.
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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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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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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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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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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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