In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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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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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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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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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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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I drink for the thirst to come.
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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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