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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISSo much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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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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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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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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