Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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 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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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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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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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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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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