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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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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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The appetite grows with eating.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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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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Row on whatever happens.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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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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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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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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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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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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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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I build only living stones–men.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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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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