A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
FRANCOIS RABELAISGiving words is an act of lovers.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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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Row on whatever happens.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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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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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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He that has patience may compass anything.
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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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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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