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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
Francois Rabelais
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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
Francois Rabelais
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.
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The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.
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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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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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A bellyful is a bellyful.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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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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Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
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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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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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