I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI drink no more than a sponge.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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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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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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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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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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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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To laugh is proper to man.
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