The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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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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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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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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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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