Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHow do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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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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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Row on whatever happens.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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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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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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