The dress does not make the monk.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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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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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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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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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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