There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
FRANCOIS RABELAISScience sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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Row on whatever happens.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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Pantagruel 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.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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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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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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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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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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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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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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A crier of green sauce.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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