If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
FRANCOIS RABELAISScience without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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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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The dress does not make the monk.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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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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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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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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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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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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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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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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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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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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