For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHow do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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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 am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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