I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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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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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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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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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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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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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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