If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
FRANCOIS RABELAISPantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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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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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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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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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I build only living stones–men.
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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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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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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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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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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