The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
FRANCOIS RABELAISLet every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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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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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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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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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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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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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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