He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Row on whatever happens.
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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.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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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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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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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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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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