A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
FRANCOIS RABELAISAppetite comes with eating.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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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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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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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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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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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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