Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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Appetite comes with eating.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done. [Fr., Afin que ne semblons es Athenians, qui ne consultoient jamais sinon apres le cas faict.]
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it's my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole Enthusiasm. Here, drinking, I deliberate, I reason, I resolve and conclude. After the epilogue I laugh, I write, I compose, I drink. Ennius drinking would write, writing would drink.
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Hungry bellies have no ears. [Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]
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The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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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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Row on [whatever happens]. [Lat., Vogue la galere.]
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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.
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Hungry bellies have no cars.
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How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians. [Fr., Il y a plus de vieux ivrongnes qu'il y a de vieux medecins.]
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The appetite grows with eating.
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I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.
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Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.
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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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Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown.
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I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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