He that has patience may compass anything.
FRANCOIS RABELAISKeep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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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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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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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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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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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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A habit does not a monk make.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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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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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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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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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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