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François Rabelais quotes

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“Coin is the sinews of war.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“Take heed, I have often heard it said in a vulgar proverb, the wise may be instructed by a fool.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“I drink no more than a sponge.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston, but the thirst goes away with drinking.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“Needs must when the devil drives; there's no gainsaying of it.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“Well, quoth Friar John, as good sit still as rise up and fall; what cannot be cured must be endured.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“This notwithstanding, I will not undertake war, until I have first tried all the ways and means of peace: that I resolve upon.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you; drink always before the thirst, and it will never come upon you.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“For how shall I be able, said he, to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth; seeing none before myself had ever written of that country, wherein are above five-and-twenty kingdoms...” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“Believe me, it is a divine thing to lend,—to owe, an heroic virtue.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“This is as plain as a nose in a man's face; you know it by experience; you see it.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“But where is the last year's snow? This was the greatest care that Villon the Parisian poet took.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“Eat less, and leap more, I say; it is meat, drink, and cloth to us.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“Oh, well physicked, said the monk; a hundred devils leap into my body, if there be not more old drunkards than old physicians!” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“We'll take the goodwill for the deed, and thank you as much as if we had.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“By jingo, I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

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