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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.

Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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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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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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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper. [Fr., Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que--doufle D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.]
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Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.
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Early rising is no pleasure early drinking's just the measure.
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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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He that has patience may compass anything.
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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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Appetite comes with eating.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]
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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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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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