How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
FRANCOIS RABELAISBring down the curtain, the farce is over.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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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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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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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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