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.
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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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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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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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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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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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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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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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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