I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
FRANCOIS RABELAISPantagruel 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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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 drink no more than a sponge.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Row on whatever happens.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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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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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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