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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
Clergyman
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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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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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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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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Plain as a nose in a man's face.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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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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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of 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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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.
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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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