I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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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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Appetite comes with eating.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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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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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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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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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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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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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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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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