Appetite comes with eating.
FRANCOIS RABELAISYou have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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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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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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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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He that has patience may compass anything.
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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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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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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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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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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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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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