Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Row on whatever happens.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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I build only living stones–men.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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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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To laugh is proper to man.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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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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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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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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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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