How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
FRANCOIS RABELAISFriends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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A habit does not a monk make.
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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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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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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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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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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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