The 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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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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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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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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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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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