I build only living stones–men.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI drink no more than a sponge.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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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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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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