Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
FRANCOIS RABELAISLet every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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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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The appetite grows with eating.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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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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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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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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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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