I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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A crier of green sauce.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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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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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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