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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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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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Appetite comes with eating.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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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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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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