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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISDebts and lies are generally mixed together.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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To laugh is proper to man.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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A crier of green sauce.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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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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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Row on whatever happens.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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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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