If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
FRANCOIS RABELAISBring down the curtain, the farce is over.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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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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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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