How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
FRANCOIS RABELAISThere is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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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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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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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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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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A crier of green sauce.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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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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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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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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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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