Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIt’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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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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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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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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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 drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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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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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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