How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
FRANCOIS RABELAISI’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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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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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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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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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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