Hungry bellies have no ears.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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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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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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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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Death is the vast perhaps.
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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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I build only living stones–men.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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