François Rabelais Short Quotes

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He that has patience may compass anything.

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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

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Looking as like... as one pea does like another.

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It is enough to fright you out of your seven senses.

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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.

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Oh thrice and four times happy those who plant cabbages!

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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

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Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.

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What is got over the Devil's back is spent under the belly.

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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.

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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.

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You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled.

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He freshly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time.

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Panurge had no sooner heard this, but he was upon the high-rope.

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Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil.

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Go hang yourselves [critics]... you shall never want rope enough.

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I have nothing, owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.

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I never follow the clock: hours were made for man, not man for hours.

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Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

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I am going to seek a grand perhaps; draw the curtain, the farce is played.

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Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.

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I am going to seek the great perhaps; draw the curtain, the farce is played.

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Happy is the physician, whose coming is desired at the declension of a disease.

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Do not believe what I tell you here any more than if it were some tale of a tub.

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One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.

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Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston. But the thirst goes away with drinking.

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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

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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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A most subtle question: whether a chimera buzzing in a vacuum can devour second intentions.

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