One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Row on whatever happens.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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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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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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