A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI drink no more than a sponge.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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Row on whatever happens.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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