Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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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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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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