Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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 am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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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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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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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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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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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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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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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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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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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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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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