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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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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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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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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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To laugh is proper to man.
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A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]
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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 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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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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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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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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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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