Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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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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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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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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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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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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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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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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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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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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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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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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