You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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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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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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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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A crier of green sauce.
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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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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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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