How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
FRANCOIS RABELAISHalf the world does not know how the other half lives.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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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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Death is the vast perhaps.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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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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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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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Row on whatever happens.
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