Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIt is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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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.
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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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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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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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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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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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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.
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