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Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
Clergyman
Monk
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
Francois Rabelais
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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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Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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Between two stools one sits on the ground.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
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Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend to owe is a heroic virtue.
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I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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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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It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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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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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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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Don't limp in front of the lame.
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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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