The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA crier of green sauce.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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