Frugality is for the vulgar.
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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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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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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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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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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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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