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Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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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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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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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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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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Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
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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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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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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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I owe much I have nothing the rest I leave to the poor.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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It's a shame to be called educated those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.
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Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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