We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
FRANCOIS RABELAISScience sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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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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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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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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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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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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Machination is worth more than force.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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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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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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