I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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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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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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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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He that has patience may compass anything.
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