If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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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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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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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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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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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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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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