The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
FRANCOIS RABELAISOh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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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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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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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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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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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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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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