I build only living stones–men.
FRANCOIS RABELAISLet every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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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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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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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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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Row on whatever happens.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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