From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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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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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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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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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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