Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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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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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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