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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Row on [whatever happens]. [Lat., Vogue la galere.]
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.
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Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
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Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
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Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper. [Fr., Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que--doufle D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.]
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Giving words [is] an act of lovers.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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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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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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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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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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Always open all gates and roads to your enemies, and rather make for them a bridge of silver, to get rid of them. [Fr., Ouvrez toujours a vos ennemis toutes les portes et chemin, et plutot leur faites un pont d'argent, afin de les renvoyer.]
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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I owe much I have nothing the rest I leave to the poor.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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