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1. "Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.I'd rather write about laughing than crying,For laughter makes men human, and courageous." ~ François Rabelais
2. "A mother-in-law dies only when another devil is needed in hell." ~ François Rabelais
3. "Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-être." ~ François Rabelais
4. "the wise may be instructed by a fool" ~ François Rabelais
5. "If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks." ~ François Rabelais
6. "I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw a curtain, the farce is played out." ~ François Rabelais
7. "I have nothing, I owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor." ~ François Rabelais
8. "Si vous faîtes attention aux signes, quand donc ferez vous attention à ce qu'ils signifient?If you pay attention to the signs, but when will you pay attention to what they signify?" ~ François Rabelais
9. "... I say and maintain, that of all torcheculs, arsewisps, bumfodders, tail-napkins, bunghole cleansers, and wipe-breeches, there is none in the world comparable to the neck of a goose ..." ~ François Rabelais
10. "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." ~ François Rabelais
11. "Ignorance est mère de tous les maux." ~ François Rabelais
12. "Conheço muitos que não puderam quando deviam porque não quiseram quando podiam." ~ François Rabelais
13. "..to laugh is proper to the man." ~ François Rabelais
14. "...and also celebrate the Skill of the Scythians in that Art, who sent once to Darius King of Persia an Embassador that made him a present of a Bird, a Frog, a Mouse, and five Arrows, without speaking one word; and being ask'd what those Presents meant, and if he had Commission to say any thing, answer'd that he had not; Which puzzl'd and gravell'd Darius very much; till Gobrias, one of the seven Captains that had kil'd the Magi explain'd it, saying to Darius, By these Gifts and Offerings the Scythians silently tell you, that except the Persians like Birds fly up to Heaven, like Mice hide themselves near the Centre of the Earth, or like Frogs dive to the very bottom of Ponds and Lakes, they shall be destroyed by the Power and Arrows of the Scythians." ~ François Rabelais
15. "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." ~ François Rabelais
16. "He would flay the fox, say the ape's paternoster, return to his sheep, and turn the hogs to the hay. He would beat the dogs before the lion, put the plough before the oxen, and claw where it did not itch." ~ François Rabelais
17. "I go to see a Greater Perhaps." ~ François Rabelais
18. "Thirst, for who in the time of innocence would have drunk without being athirst? Nay, sir, it was drinking; for privatio praesupponit habitum." ~ François Rabelais

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