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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBecause 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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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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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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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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A habit does not a monk make.
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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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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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