If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThere is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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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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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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