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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISOh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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To laugh is proper to man.
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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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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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A crier of green sauce.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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