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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISScience sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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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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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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A crier of green sauce.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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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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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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