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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
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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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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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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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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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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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I owe much I have nothing the rest I leave to the poor.
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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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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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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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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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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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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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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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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Early rising is no pleasure early drinking's just the measure.
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