I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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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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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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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.
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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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He that has patience may compass anything.
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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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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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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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