Nature abhors a vacuum.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFrom the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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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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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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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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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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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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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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