Francois Rabelais Quotes

Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Goodness Greatness Hate Man Wine
A good intention does not mean honor.
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Goodness Intention Respect
Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Appetite Drinking Eat Thirsty
All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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End Patience Wait Well
Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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Certain Fortune Hazard Spirit
An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Face Monkey Old
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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Abuse Family Old Rejection Understand Young Yourself
I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Comfort God Prayer Save Sleep
For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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Born Future God Impossible Woman
To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Fear Goodness Love Relationship True
Death is the vast perhaps.
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Death One Liner
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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Head Human Individual Lost Nature Perish
One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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Adventure Bother End Fortune Pursue Upset
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Known Live World
A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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Battle Coin Force War
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Himself Man Worth
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Avoid Break Children Fools Mirror See
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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Mindset Wisdom
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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Around Head Missing Moments Right
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Curtain Farce
We will take the good-will for the deed.
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Acceptance Goodness Will
I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Courage Cry Human Laughter Man Writing
If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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Growth Heaven Thankful
The 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.
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Animal Bite Dog Thirst Water Yourself
I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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Greatness Myself Seek
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Fall Ground Oneself
It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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Doctor Happiness Sick Way

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