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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
Francois Rabelais
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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
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Between two stools one sits on the ground.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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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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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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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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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
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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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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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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
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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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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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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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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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