The dress does not make the monk.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFrugality is for the vulgar.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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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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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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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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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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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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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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