Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIt is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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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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A good intention does not mean honor.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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