Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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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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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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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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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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