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It's a shame to be called educated those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
Francois Rabelais
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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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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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All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.
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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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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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A bellyful is a bellyful.
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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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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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I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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