If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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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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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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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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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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If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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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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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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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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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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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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