A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Machination is worth more than force.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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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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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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