How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
FRANCOIS RABELAISDebts and lies are generally mixed together.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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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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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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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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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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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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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 build only living stones–men.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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