The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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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He that has patience may compass anything.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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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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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Row on whatever happens.
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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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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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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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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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