The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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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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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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I build only living stones–men.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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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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Row on whatever happens.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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