Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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A habit does not a monk make.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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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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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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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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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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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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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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