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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
Francois Rabelais
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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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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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A bellyful is a bellyful.
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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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Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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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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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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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 belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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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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To laugh is proper to man.
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I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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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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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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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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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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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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Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.
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