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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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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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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.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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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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A crier of green sauce.
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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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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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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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I build only living stones–men.
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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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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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