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Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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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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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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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 habit does not a monk make.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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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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Don't limp in front of the lame.
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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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Row on [whatever happens]. [Lat., Vogue la galere.]
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible ..., we'll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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