A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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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The appetite grows with eating.
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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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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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A crier of green sauce.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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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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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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I build only living stones–men.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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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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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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