A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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.
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Row on whatever happens.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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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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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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