I drink no more than a sponge.
FRANCOIS RABELAISKeep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I build only living stones–men.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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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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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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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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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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Appetite comes with eating.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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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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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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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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