Giving words is an act of lovers.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFrom the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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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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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 great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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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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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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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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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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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.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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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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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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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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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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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 man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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