Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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A crier of green sauce.
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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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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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 owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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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.
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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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To laugh is proper to man.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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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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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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