Machination is worth more than force.
FRANCOIS RABELAISTime, 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake 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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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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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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Death is the vast perhaps.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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