The dress does not make the monk.
FRANCOIS RABELAISScience without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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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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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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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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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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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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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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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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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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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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