How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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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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Time, 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.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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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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The dress does not make the monk.
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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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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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