I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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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 deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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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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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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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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