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„Я иду искать великое «Быть Может.»“

„У меня ничего нет, я много должен; остальное отдайте бедным.“

„Все приходит вовремя, если люди умеют ждать.“

„Разум человека сильнее его кулаков.“

„Время является отцом истины.“

„Деньги — это мышцы войны.“

„Кто обладает терпением, может достичь всего.“

„Я ничего не боюсь, кроме опасностей.“

„Старых пьяниц встречаешь чаще, чем старых докторов.“

„Возвращаясь к нашим баранам…“

„Я пью не больше, чем губка.“

„Писать лучше смеясь, чем со слезами, ибо смех — особенная примета человека.“

„Аппетит приходит во время еды.“

„Возвращаясь к нашим баранам, я должен сказать, что по великой милости божьей родословная Гаргантюа с древнейших времён дошла до нас в более полном виде, чем какая-либо ещё, не считая родословной Мессии…“

“He did not care a button for it.”

“How well I feathered my nest.”

“I have nothing, owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.”

“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.”

“I'll go his halves.”

“And thereby hangs a tale.”

“Like hearts of oak.”

“Looking as like…as one pea does like another.”

“Whose cockloft is unfurnished.”

“Because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.”

“Nature abhors a vacuum.”

“Alluring, courtly, comely, fine, complete,
Wise, personable, ravishing, and sweet,
Come joys enjoy. The Lord celestial
Hath given enough wherewith to please us all.”

“Grace, honour, praise, delight,
Here sojourn day and night.
Sound bodies lined
With a good mind,
Do here pursue with might
Grace, honour, praise, delight.

Here enter you, and welcome from our hearts,
All noble sparks, endowed with gallant parts.
This is the glorious place, which bravely shall
Afford wherewith to entertain you all.
Were you a thousand, here you shall not want
For anything; for what you'll ask we'll grant.
Stay here, you lively, jovial, handsome, brisk,
Gay, witty, frolic, cheerful, merry, frisk,
Spruce, jocund, courteous, furtherers of trades,
And, in a word, all worthy gentle blades.”

“Here enter you, pure, honest, faithful, true
Expounders of the Scriptures old and new.
Whose glosses do not blind our reason, but
Make it to see the clearer, and who shut
Its passages from hatred, avarice,
Pride, factions, covenants, and all sort of vice.
Come, settle here a charitable faith,
Which neighbourly affection nourisheth.
And whose light chaseth all corrupters hence,
Of the blest word, from the aforesaid sense.

The holy sacred Word,
May it always afford
T' us all in common,
Both man and woman,
A spiritual shield and sword,
The holy sacred Word.”