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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
Clergyman
Monk
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
Francois Rabelais
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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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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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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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Machination is worth more than force.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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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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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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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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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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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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If 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.
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I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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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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A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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