Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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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.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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The appetite grows with eating.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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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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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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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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He that has patience may compass anything.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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