War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI drink no more than a sponge.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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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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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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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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Death is the vast perhaps.
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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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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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