Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFrom the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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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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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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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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