Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
FRANCOIS RABELAISKeep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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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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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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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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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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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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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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A crier of green sauce.
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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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