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I drink for the thirst to come.

Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
Francois Rabelais
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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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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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Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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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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Row on [whatever happens]. [Lat., Vogue la galere.]
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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It's a shame to be called educated those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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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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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]
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Early rising is no pleasure early drinking's just the measure.
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Giving words [is] an act of lovers.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.
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