A good intention does not mean honor.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIndeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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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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He that has patience may compass anything.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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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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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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I build only living stones–men.
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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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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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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.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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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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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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