To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
FRANCOIS RABELAISDebts and lies are generally mixed together.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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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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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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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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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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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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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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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 you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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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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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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