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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
Francois Rabelais
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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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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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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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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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Plain as a nose in a man's face.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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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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I drink for the thirst to come.
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How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.
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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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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.
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Row on [whatever happens]. [Lat., Vogue la galere.]
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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I owe much I have nothing the rest I leave to the poor.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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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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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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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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