The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
FRANCOIS RABELAISTo laugh is proper to man.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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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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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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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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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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