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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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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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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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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 the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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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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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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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