I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA good intention does not mean honor.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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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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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Row on whatever happens.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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