Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
FRANCOIS RABELAISAgainst fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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Row on whatever happens.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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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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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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