It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFrugality is for the vulgar.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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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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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Row on whatever happens.
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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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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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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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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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