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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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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 drink no more than a sponge.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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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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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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Giving words [is] an act of lovers.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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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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Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
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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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To laugh is proper to man.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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A bellyful is a bellyful.
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I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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