Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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A crier of green sauce.
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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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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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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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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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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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I drink for the thirst to come.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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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Machination is worth more than force.
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