One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
FRANCOIS RABELAISOh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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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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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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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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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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I build only living stones–men.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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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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