Quotes from Francois Rabelais

Conheço muitos que não puderam quando deviam porque não quiseram quando podiam.

Baste! enough! I sup, I wet, I humect, I moisten my gullet, I drink, and all for fear of dying. Drink always and you shall never die.

I have a remedy against thirst, quite contrary to that which is good against the biting of a mad dog. Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you; drink always before the thirst, and it will never come upon you.

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.

Break the bone and suck out the substantific marrow.

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

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

Oh thrice and four times happy those who plant cabbages!

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

Appetite comes with eating… but the thirst goes away with drinking.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

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.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

To laugh is proper to man.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

Speak the truth and shame the Devil.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

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

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.

Do what thou wilt.

It is meat, drink, and cloth to us.