So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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The appetite grows with eating.
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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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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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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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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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I build only living stones–men.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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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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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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