Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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A crier of green sauce.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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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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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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