Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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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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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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