I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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I build only living stones–men.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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