Tell the truth and shame the devil.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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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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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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