There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHalf the world does not know how the other half lives.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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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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A crier of green sauce.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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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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A habit does not a monk make.
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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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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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I build only living stones–men.
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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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