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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

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Hypocrisy, Religion, Half

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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.

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Heaven, Soil, France

Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel”, Library of Alexandria

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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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Order, Arrogance, Desire

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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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Humility, Long, Lasts

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Go, all of you poor people, in the name of God the Creator, and let him forever be your guide. And henceforth, do not be beguiledby these idle and useless pilgrimages. See to your families, and work, each one of you, in your vocation, raise your children, and live as the good Apostle Paul teaches you.

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Wisdom, Children, Names

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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

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Life, Death, Insanity

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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

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Reign, Hunger, Guts

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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

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Memories, Men, Kind Deeds

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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.

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War, Breathing, Passing Away

Francois Rabelais (2014). “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, p.159, Lulu Press, Inc

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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
[Fr., Debtes et mensonges sont ordinairement ensemble rallies.]

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Lying, Together, Ensemble

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I do not drink more than a sponge.

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Food, Wine, Beer

"Gargantua", Book I., Chapter 5, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 204-07, 1922.

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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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Son, Cracks, Vain

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Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.

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Strong, Wall, Military

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Do not limp before the lame.
[Old Fr., Ne clochez pas devant les boyteus.]

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Lame, Prudence

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Misery is the company of lawsuits.

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Feet, Misery, Company

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If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries," I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.

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Wise, Reading, Amusement

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It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.

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Oxen, Order, Folly

"Gargantua" by François Rabelais, ch. XI, 1534.

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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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War, Battle, Coins

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I build only living stones--men.

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Men, Religion, Stones

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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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Wisdom, Events, Done

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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, Waiting, Secret

Francois Rabelais (2006). “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Edition”, p.184, ReadHowYouWant.com

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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

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Death, Nature, Farce

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Hungry bellies have no cars.

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Car, Hunger, Hungry

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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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Blessed, Men, Feet

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Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals,a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.

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Faith, Silly, Player

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Born: February 4, 1494
Died: April 9, 1553
Occupation: Writer
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