The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHow can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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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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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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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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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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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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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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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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Row on whatever happens.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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I build only living stones–men.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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