The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
- Francois Rabelais
Always, Thirst, Before, Remedy
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
- Francois Rabelais
Go, Perhaps, Finished, Farce
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
- Francois Rabelais
Strength, Gut, Where, Strut
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
- Francois Rabelais
Me, Believe, Heroic, Tis
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
- Francois Rabelais
More, Agreeable, Delicious, Celestial
Frugality is for the vulgar.
- Francois Rabelais
Vulgar, Frugality
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
- Francois Rabelais
Time, Father, Truth, Revealed
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
- Francois Rabelais
Desire, Always, Forbidden, Denied
No clock is more regular than the belly.
- Francois Rabelais
More, Belly, Than, Regular
The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
- Francois Rabelais
Missed, Been, Wears, Bald
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
- Francois Rabelais
Legal, Company, Misery, Lawsuits
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
- Francois Rabelais
Trying, Ground, Falls, Sit
Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
- Francois Rabelais
Will, More, Many, Notice
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.
- Francois Rabelais
Memory, Thought, Through, All Things
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
- Francois Rabelais
Debts, Lies, Mixed, Together
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
- Francois Rabelais
World, Idleness, Perish, Remove
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
- Francois Rabelais
Wise, How, Antiquity, Do You Know
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
- Francois Rabelais
How, Over, Able, Command
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
- Francois Rabelais
Expecting, Harm, Receive, Benevolence
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
- Francois Rabelais
Strength, Hope, Works, No Hope
To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
- Francois Rabelais
Love, True, Forever, True Love
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
- Francois Rabelais
Study, Within, Counsel, Useless
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
- Francois Rabelais
Thoughts, Everyone, Counsel, Undertaking
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
- Francois Rabelais
Fall, Skies, May, Catch
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
- Francois Rabelais
Old, More, Physicians, Drunkards
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
- Francois Rabelais
Mother, Ignorance, Evils
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
- Francois Rabelais
Love, Attractive, Effective, Valuable
Nature abhors a vacuum.
- Francois Rabelais
Nature, Vacuum, Abhors
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
- Francois Rabelais
Peace, Tried, Means, Undertake
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
- Francois Rabelais
Tears, Better, Than, Laughter
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.
- Francois Rabelais
Wish, Seeing, Glass, Avoid
A habit does not a monk make.
- Francois Rabelais
Habit, Does, Make, Monk
I drink no more than a sponge.
- Francois Rabelais
Drink, More, Than, Sponge
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
- Francois Rabelais
Rules, Will, Only, Clause
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
- Francois Rabelais
Truth, Shame, Tell, Devil
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
- Francois Rabelais
Think, I Think, Drink
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
- Francois Rabelais
Could, Had, Would, Known
How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?
- Francois Rabelais
Myself, How, Even, Govern
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
- Francois Rabelais
Science, Death, Soul, Conscience
Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
- Francois Rabelais
Time, Wait, Everything, Those
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
- Francois Rabelais
World, How, Other, Half
For he who can wait, everything comes in time.
- Francois Rabelais
Time, Everything, He, Wait
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