If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThere is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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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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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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