Rabelais

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    The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    Frugality is for the vulgar.
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)