Francois Rabelais on oneself
Francois Rabelais125 quotes“If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.”
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He that has patience may compass anything.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais To laugh is proper to man.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais Of a young hermit, an old devil.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais A habit does not a monk make.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais
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