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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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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