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Invented by the calumniating enemy.
Pantagruel (1532)
Scampering as if the Devil drove them.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
We'll take the good-will for the deed.
What cannot be cured must be endured.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Send them home as merry as crickets.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
And so on to the end of the chapter.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
He laid him squat as a flounder.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
I drink no more than a sponge.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
That's all the glory my heart is after,
Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying,
For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
He did not care a button for it.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Time, which gnaws and diminisheth all things else, augments and increaseth benefits; because a noble action of liberality, done to a man of reason, doth grow continually by his generous thinking of it and remembering it.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Appetite comes with eating ... but the thirst goes away with drinking.
The Devil was sick, — the Devil a monk would be;
The Devil was well, — the devil a monk was he.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
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.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
This flea which I have in mine ear.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Others made a virtue of necessity.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Needs must when the Devil drives.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Let us fly and save our bacon.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)