How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
FRANCOIS RABELAISHungry bellies have no ears.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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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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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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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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To laugh is proper to man.
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A crier of green sauce.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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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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