I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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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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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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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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Machination is worth more than force.
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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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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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