A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Always open all gates and roads to your enemies, and rather make for them a bridge of silver, to get rid of… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
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