Tell the truth and shame the devil.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I build only living stones–men.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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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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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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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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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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