Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
FRANCOIS RABELAISOne 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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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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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Row on whatever happens.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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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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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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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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