War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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He that has patience may compass anything.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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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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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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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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