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Francois Rabelais
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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Between two stools one sits on the ground.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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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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The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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