If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
FRANCOIS RABELAISNature 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 RABELAISI drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA good intention does not mean honor.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWhen I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFrugality is for the vulgar.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThere is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWe always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThere are more old drunkards than old physicians.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI am going to seek a grand perhaps.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
FRANCOIS RABELAISOf a young hermit, an old devil.
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