When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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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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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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