How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
FRANCOIS RABELAISGestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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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.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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