If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
FRANCOIS RABELAISThere is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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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 no more than a sponge.
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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