An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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Row on whatever happens.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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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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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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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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