Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
FRANCOIS RABELAISLanguages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
FRANCOIS RABELAISHow do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI am going to seek a grand perhaps.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThere is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHalf the world does not know how the other half lives.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI drink for the thirst to come.
FRANCOIS RABELAISNo clock is more regular than the belly.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFrugality is for the vulgar.
FRANCOIS RABELAISAppetite comes with eating.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBut where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
FRANCOIS RABELAISTime, 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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe appetite grows with eating.
FRANCOIS RABELAISRow on whatever happens.
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