A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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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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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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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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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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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