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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Row on whatever happens.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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I build only living stones–men.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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