But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI drink no more than a sponge.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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Appetite comes with eating.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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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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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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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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