There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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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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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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