How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
FRANCOIS RABELAISNo clock is more regular than the belly.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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I build only living stones–men.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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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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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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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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