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Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend to owe is a heroic virtue.
Francois Rabelais
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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.
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All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.
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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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So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done. [Fr., Afin que ne semblons es Athenians, qui ne consultoient jamais sinon apres le cas faict.]
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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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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Machination is worth more than force.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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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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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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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
Francois Rabelais
Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
Francois Rabelais
If you say to me: Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries, I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
Francois Rabelais
Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
Francois Rabelais
Appetite comes with eating.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it's my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole Enthusiasm. Here, drinking, I deliberate, I reason, I resolve and conclude. After the epilogue I laugh, I write, I compose, I drink. Ennius drinking would write, writing would drink.
Francois Rabelais
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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