One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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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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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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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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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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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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A crier of green sauce.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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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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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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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.
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