Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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To laugh is proper to man.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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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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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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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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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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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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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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