Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
FRANCOIS RABELAISAgainst fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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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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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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I build only living stones–men.
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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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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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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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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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