If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFor God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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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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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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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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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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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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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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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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