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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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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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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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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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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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